Mary Agnes Donoghue
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Description
Ingrid, a smart, free-spirited, and somewhat narcissistic artist kills her deceitful lover in a crime of passion. Even while serving a prison sentence, she exerts control over her adoring teenage daughter, Astrid, who's forced to spend her teenage years in a series of foster homes before becoming her own person. Explores the strange relationship of Ingrid and Astrid, and includes Astrid's relationship with her foster mothers. At first merely an appendage...
2) Beaches
Description
Traces the friendship of two very different women who meet on a beach as young girls, through good and bad times, career and marriage changes until together they must face a final challenge as only best friends can.