My rating: 4 of 5 stars
“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
----Dorothy Allison
an American writer, speaker, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers
Emma Burstall, the English author's, latest book,
The Darling Girls explores the lives of three women held together by a common relationship- a man shared by all three.
Synopsis:
Three women, one man, and a tangle of lies.
When the world famous music conductor Leo Bruck dies suddenly, the three women who loved him meet for the first time at his graveside.
Victoria, his partner of twenty years and mother of two of his children; Maddy, mother of Leo’s daughter Phoebe; and twenty-four year old Cat. Can these three very different women, whose lives become inextricably bound, break free from the masterful control Leo exerts - even from the grave - once and for all?
