The Resource Our secrets and lies, Sinead Moriarty
Our secrets and lies, Sinead Moriarty
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- Summary
- Can a mother be true to her children if she cannot be true to herself? Having her son and daughter at 21 forced Lucy Murphy to walk away from a glittering future. They are the loves of her life and she is determined that they will have wonderful lives. So a scholarship to a prestigious school seems like a golden opportunity for the twins, the fulfilment of every wish Lucy has for them. But Lucy is confusing her thwarted ambitions with what her children really want. After all, seventeen-year-olds have dreams of their own, dreams they cannot always share with their mother. Until catastrophe strikes, Lucy is blind to the cost of forcing her own wishes on the twins, particularly her sensitive daughter. To have any hope of surviving as a family, all three will have to face up to some surprising and difficult truths ... Our Secrets and Lies is a moving, gripping and thought-provoking story about a mother learning the hardest lesson of all - how to let go of her children and how to live without them
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Our secrets and lies
- Title
- Our secrets and lies
- Statement of responsibility
- Sinead Moriarty
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Can a mother be true to her children if she cannot be true to herself? Having her son and daughter at 21 forced Lucy Murphy to walk away from a glittering future. They are the loves of her life and she is determined that they will have wonderful lives. So a scholarship to a prestigious school seems like a golden opportunity for the twins, the fulfilment of every wish Lucy has for them. But Lucy is confusing her thwarted ambitions with what her children really want. After all, seventeen-year-olds have dreams of their own, dreams they cannot always share with their mother. Until catastrophe strikes, Lucy is blind to the cost of forcing her own wishes on the twins, particularly her sensitive daughter. To have any hope of surviving as a family, all three will have to face up to some surprising and difficult truths ... Our Secrets and Lies is a moving, gripping and thought-provoking story about a mother learning the hardest lesson of all - how to let go of her children and how to live without them
- Cataloging source
- AU@
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Moriarty, Sinead
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Single mothers
- Mother and child
- Twins
- Parent and teenager
- Label
- Our secrets and lies, Sinead Moriarty
- Control code
- on1028974266
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 435 pages
- Isbn
- 9781844884056
- Label
- Our secrets and lies, Sinead Moriarty
- Control code
- on1028974266
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 435 pages
- Isbn
- 9781844884056
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