
In My Mother's House
Pages: 556
|Published: 1 Jan 1988
Description
Lydia Franklin, daughter of a prosperous New York banker, grows up in a house filled with shadows and secrets. By the time she marries George Webster and moves to Connecticut, she is a dutiful wife obsessed with forgetting her past. . . controlling her daughter Charlotte's life. . . and vanquishing her personal demons. But Lydia's deeply buried yesterdays may taint her daughter's chance of happiness, and destroy her beautiful, artistic granddaughter Molly with the legacy of a truth too shocking to ever tell. A riveting novel of mother and daughters torn apart by loss and twisted emotions, In My Mother's House sweeps from the brownstones of turn-of-the-century New York to the stately farmlands of Connecticut to explore a woman's shame, a family's deceit, and a final act of love. . . PRAISE FOR IN MY MOTHER'S “Accomplished… the portrait of Lydia is one of the novel’s triumphs. ” - New York Times Book Review “A classic woman’s novel…Compassionate…absorbing. ” - Newsday “An utterly absorbing… resounding novel… Skillful and precise psychological threadwork…Crystalline images and genuine warmth for her characters…Winthrop powerfully illuminates one of the darker corners of the human psyche. ” - Publishers Weekly “Explores the fearful legacy of child abuse in the lives of three women…the author writes with the ease and narrative punch of a practiced storyteller. ” - Kirkus Reviews “Written with sensitivity and insight. ” - Washington Post