Making good

May 1972. A long-dreaded confrontation at a family funeral, a revelation at a birth begins an eighteen month exploration of the lives of both the Irish Donovan families and the Hertfordshire Burdocks, in which sisters-in-law choose to be both vengeful and avenging, brotherly love is is repeatedly tested to extremes and family loyalties are tested, tried and found to be occasionally fatal.

Additionally, there is the unexpected reappearance of a man from a guilty past - is he the now-reformed character he claims to be? And should he be forgiven?

Even as Bridie’s marriage approaches its seventh year she is still too often tempted to stray in the direction of her husband’s eldest brother, but for once Sean is not alone in trying to make good both his marriage and his wife.