If Only I Could Tell You

If Only I Could Tell You
Hannah Beckerman, author

Two sisters, Lily and Phoebe, haven’t spoken for almost 30 years.
Their mother, Audrey has given up trying to fix them. She sees her two granddaughters, always separately.
A secret, so big and devastating, has taken its toll on three generations of this family.
This is a well written story about lives torn apart and lives healing again. Recommended.
William Morrow/Harper Collins publisher

Singing My Him Song / M McCourt

Malachy’s brother Frank introduced us to the McCourt family in his novel “Angela’s Ashes”. Then Malachy wrote his first novel about his life in America, “A Monk Swimming”...The McCourt family lived a poverty stricken life growing up in Ireland, and when Malachy came to the USA as a young man, he was determined to change all that. He was a bartender, a hooligan, a sometime actor. Unfortunately, he was an alcoholic , too. Divorced from his first wife and estranged from his children , he was spiraling downward.
Down and out and unemployed, you can’t help but rout for Malachy McCourt:)
I loved this book, as I loved reading his first book and his brother Frank’s books. This McCourt boy had a wild and crazy life.