Making good

by Sandra Davies

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.

347 pages, Paperback

First published May 3, 2015

About the author

Artist, printmaker, family historian and writer, born in Essex, lived in Teesside for decades.

Easing myself from a decade of printmaking, I began writing fiction in 2010. As well as 'Edge', the illustrated 'One that got away' spawned three novels written for my own entertainment.
Thereafter I further challenged myself and began a tale of murder. Luke Darbyshere and Baz Rose seized hold of my imagination. I wanted to know more about their occasionally toxic relationships with each other, and with the women they loved. Murder became the background against which were enacted the triangles of their lives and their affairs and to date they have featured in four novels: 'Step so Grave', 'Longest shadows reach'. 'Commissiom & Omission' and 'Drink with a dead man' All available from https://www.blurb.co.uk/user/SandraDa...