The Sunshine Sisters

Jane Green

Jun 2017 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

The New York Times bestselling author of Falling presents a warm, wise, and wonderfully vivid novel about a mother who asks her three estranged daughters to come home to help her end her life.
 
Ronni Sunshine left London for Hollywood to become a beautiful, charismatic star of the silver screen. But at home, she was a narcissistic, disinterested mother who alienated her three daughters.
 
As soon as possible, tomboy Nell fled her mother’s overbearing presence to work on a farm and find her own way in the world as a single mother. The target of her mother’s criticism, Meredith never felt good enough, thin enough, pretty enough. Her life took her to London—and into the arms of a man whom she may not even love. And Lizzy, the youngest, more like Ronni than any of them, seemed to have it easy, using her drive and ambition to build a culinary career to rival her mother’s fame, while her marriage crumbled around her.
 
But now the Sunshine sisters are together again, called home by Ronni, who has learned that she has a serious disease and needs her daughters to fulfill her final wishes. And though Nell, Meredith, and Lizzy have never been close, their mother’s illness draws them together to confront the old jealousies and secret fears that have threatened to tear these sisters apart. As they face the loss of their mother, they will discover if blood might be thicker than water after all...

Ratings and reviews

I received a copy of this book courtesy of Goodreads Giveaway in exchange for an honest review. While this book is about a dysfunctional family, I think we can all see some dysfunctional aspects in our own family relationships. Don’t we all look back and think of ways we could have parented better, things we wish we had said or wish we had not said? This book reflects on how parenting has effected their children's personalities and how they relate to each other. A very heartfelt story with well developed characters. I enjoyed reading this family drama. If you like reading books about family relationships with humor thrown in, (This Is Where I Leave You) you will enjoy this book. If you liked Still Alice & Me Before You, you will like this book.

About the author

A former journalist in the UK and a graduate of the International Culinary Center in New York, Jane Green has written many novels (including Jemima J, The Beach House, and, most recently, Falling), most of which have been New York Times bestsellers, and one cookbook, Good Taste. Her novels are published in more than twenty-five languages, and she has over ten million books in print worldwide. She lives in Westport, Connecticut, with her husband and a small army of children and animals.