The Plumb siblings have been waiting for a modest trust fund to be released to them when the youngest of the four turns 40. Over the years, the fund (known to the siblings as 'The Nest') has grown to about 2 million$ - a nice chunk of change for each of them. The siblings have been living their lives as though that money was already in their pockets. What no one counted on was that the oldest would require rehab or that he would be involved in a drunken car accident that caused serious injury to his passenger - a woman other than his wife. The siblings' mum, who has control over the fund, uses a large portion of it to bail out her boy - leaving the others in serious financial trouble with not much light at the end of the tunnel.
This story just annoyed me. That four siblings couldn't get their act together and live productive, financially responsible lives by the time they hit 40 bothered me. It's a classic case of 'count your chickens'.
The book was okay - there was so much missed opportunity by the author. The characters were not especially well fleshed out and the story - for me - fell kind of flat. The siblings were spoiled, self-centred, dysfunctional adults who behaved like badly brought up children. Don't get me wrong - I like a story about dysfunction as much as the next person but this one mostly missed the mark for me.
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