Three Sisters, Old Secrets And The Pull Of Home
Family reunion novels only really work when each returning character brings a believable emotional history with them, and that is where this debut succeeds. It is warm, wounded and very readable, with sisterhood and grief doing most of the heavy lifting.
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Three Sisters, Old Secrets And The Pull Of Home
Family reunion novels only really work when each returning character brings a believable emotional history with them, and that is where this debut succeeds. It is warm, wounded and very readable, with sisterhood and grief doing most of the heavy lifting.
- Book Synopsis
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Ideal for readers who:
- Will click with family novels shaped by grief, old secrets and adult sibling dynamics
- Are drawn to stories of homecoming, reckoning and complicated inheritance
- Find themselves pulled towards contemporary fiction about sisters carrying very different forms of pain
- Prefer emotional, readable and character-driven family drama
Heather Aimee O'Neill's debut brings three sisters back to the family home where an old tragedy still shadows everything. The setup is familiar in the best way: a reunion, long-held guilt, unresolved history and the pressure of finally having to say what has been left unsaid.
What keeps the novel moving is the distinct emotional burden each sister carries, and the way the family past continues to shape their present lives. Romantic tension, career uncertainty and private grief all feed into the larger question of whether reconciliation is really possible.
This is a strong choice for readers who like emotionally charged family fiction with secrets at its centre and sisterhood at its heart.
- About The Author
- Heather Aimee O'Neill is the Assistant Director of the Sackett Street Writers' Workshop and the author of the poetry collection Obliterations (Red Hen Press / co-authored with Jessica Piazza) and the poetry chapbook Memory Future (Gold Line Press Award). As a writing teacher and developmental editor, she has helped hundreds of writers tell their stories. She lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, with her wife and two sons. This is her first novel.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781035074570
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Mantle, (02 October 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 288
- Weight
- 360 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 x 24 mm
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