"For my wife, Cecilia Fitzpatrick
To be opened only in the event of my death"
Cecilia found the envelope among a stack of old tax records and imagined it contained a sentimental message, given it was dated just a few days after the birth of their first child, fifteen years ago. Cecilia has no idea that the letter is a Pandora's Box that will blow her world apart.
Although Cecilia doesn't know it, the unopened letter will link her to two other women. There is Rachel, the part-time school secretary at her daughters' school. Rachel has rebuilt her life after the murder of her teenaged daughter twenty years ago and her divorce from her husband. As her son and daughter-in-law plan a move to New York with her much adored grandson, Rachel realizes that she must rethink her life once again. Tess, the third, is the daughter of Rachel's work share partner. She has brought her six-year-old son with her while she cares for her recently injured mother. She too is contemplating major changes in her own life and marriage. The lives of these three women are tied to each other by one man’s secret.
This is certainly not great literature. What it is, however, is an interesting, well written tale about moral ambiguity, secrets and their consequences in the lives of three women who suddenly find themselves connected by them. Bring this book on vacation.
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