Laura is a nurse and mother of two and has never had a good relationship with her mother Helen who has always clung to the memory of her deceased husband Joseph, a relationship that Helen always described as the perfect love. Now Helen has had a stroke and Laura must be her advocate, a role she is not entirely comfortable with. She tries to include her much older brother, but he has been estranged from the family as well for a time. Finding her parents’ love letters allows Laura a glimpse at the past, a past that held much sorrow for her mother, and a past that may not have been as perfect as Helen portrayed it. Told in alternating chapters between Helen’s past as a young bride, wife and mother, and Lauara’s present day, readers will get to know the two women and the secrets a mother holds to keep her family safe. Laura is not an especially well-drawn character and is hard to get to know, but it is difficult to tell if that is intentional on the part of the author as Helen has always held part of herself back from her family. A story of mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, Sea Escape is not an especially cheery summer read, but an engrossing one.
1 comment:
Engrossing is good...even if it isn't cheery! Family drama has a way of being consuming, doesn't it?!?
L.Z.
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