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When Meredith flies home to New England, daughter Eloise in tow, she leaves her husband and a life back in LA. A heartbreaking loss is killing their marriage. So she looks to her mother and siblings for the support she desperately needs, and the love her daughter surely deserves—two things her husband can’t seem to provide.
Meredith’s mother, Delia, is thrilled by their sudden arrival at the family farm. But her husband braces for the chaos his stepdaughter and granddaughter will surely bring. Meredith’s announcement that she’s moved home for good takes the whole family by surprise and turns everything upside down.
While wrestling with her future, artist Meredith is forced to confront her past—and the disappointment she believes her mother, a violin teacher, felt when musically gifted Meredith abandoned the violin.
As Meredith works to repair relationships with members of her family, an old flame turns up and further complicates her life.
Delia, in a desperate attempt to rescue her daughter’s marriage, does something unforgivable, and Meredith has to decide if she should uproot Eloise and take off. When Eloise goes missing, help arrives from an unexpected quarter.
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"Daughters" is an ode to the often challenging relationship between mothers and their girls. It's an interesting way to explore what it means to be a mother when your children are grown, but also what it means to be a child when you're no longer a kid. The story is told through the lens of Meredith, a daughter who has left her husband and moved back to her childhood farm with her own daughter. Meredith's mother wants to dote on and care for her like she's still a young girl, which drives a wedge between the two. As Meredith works to figure out what her life looks like post-divorce, her mother is learning how letting go can actually strengthen their bond.I liked how the author made the characters obviously flawed (and sometimes annoying) but softened them into lovable characters as the story progressed. The story felt relatable to me, as someone who struggled with my relationship with my mother as a teenager.This is the first novel I've read by Corinne Demas, and I would check out her other works in the future.