by Maeve Binchy, 1994
757 pages – Helen McMahon disappears from Lough Glass leaving her husband and 2 kids. Kit, her daughter, finds a note to Martin & burns it – it was a suicide note, Kit thought – but it really wasn’t – it was an explanation to Martin from Helen of why she was leaving them.
They thought she drowned. Years later, she, as Lena, starts corresponding with daughter, Kit. Louis leaves her (Lena). Kit grows up and learns she’s her Mom. Emmet & Anna, Clio & Michael, Martin & Maura, Kit & Stevie, and on & on – so many characters. Oh yeah – Sister Madeleine – Ivy, Jim & Jessie, James Williams, Dr. Kelly London, Lough Glass, Dublin – could not put it down!