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Domestic Affairs

Tekijä: Eileen Goudge

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Fiction. Suspense. Rosie and Abigail are like family, Ina Merriweather used to say. That is, until the day Ina cast out her housekeeper, Rosie, and her fifteen-year-old daughter Abigail. Abigail felt deeply betrayed, especially by Ina's daughter Lila, who was her closest friend. Now, twenty-five years later, an old score is about to be settled, and an old love rekindled. Abigail is now a self-made woman who has built an empire out of the homemaking skills she learned from her mother. When Lila, who married well and for decades lived the glittering life of a Park Avenue socialite, suffers a tragic reversal of fortune, she seeks the help of her childhood friend, but learns that the only opening available at the moment is as Abigail's housekeeper. At the same time, Abigail is coping with the fallout from a fire in her Mexico factory, which took the life of an innocent girl, whose mother, Concepción Morales, now seeks the rich señora she holds responsible for her daughter's death. Abigail, Lila, and Concepción are thrown together and must unite to save one another ... and thems… (lisätietoja)
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Näyttää 1-5 (yhteensä 11) (seuraava | näytä kaikki)
I'm really surprised this book has NO other readers listed but ME! She writes in a very readable style---some might call it "chick lit" but this lengthy story---over 400 pages covers the lives of two woman who start off together but whose paths diverge and eventually come back together again. Yes, all in a very novel fashion but problems kept appearing and finding different solutions so the overall story was hard to put down. ( )
  nyiper | Nov 22, 2019 |
Domestic Affairs: A Novel is an intimate story of friendship lost and regained, old loves rekindled, and a baptism by fire which eventually leads three remarkable women to one very special redemption.

As children, Abigail and Lila were the best of friends. That was until betrayal fractured their friendship - seemingly forever - and Abigail was forced to leave the only home that she'd ever known. It all begins when Abigail's mother - the housekeeper for Lila's wealthy family - is summarily banished, effectively tearing Abigail away from Lila and casting her out of the place she once considered home.

Now, twenty-five years later, the girls' lives have each changed in ways they never would have expected when they were children. Abigail is now a self-made success story: a prolific author of cookbooks and television personality. Lila herself married well, and for the past decades she has lived the glittering life of a Park Avenue socialite. However, everything changes in the blink of an eye.

When Lila suffers a tragic reversal of fortune, she turns for help to her childhood friend. Penniless and all but unemployable, Lila approaches Abigail for a potential job. Abigail readily agrees and employs her old friend: as her housekeeper.

Yet revenge doesn't taste quite as sweet as Abigail once imagined. Lila's reentry into her life brings with it a host of unexpected complications and unanswered questions: Will Abigail be reunited with Lila's twin brother, Vaughn, her girlhood first love? Will a grief-stricken mother, Concepción - whose daughter perished in the fire that consumed Abigail's factory - succeed in crossing the border to track Abigail down and confront her about her daughter's death? Will Lila ever find love again after discovering that her husband took his own life?

In this sweeping and emotionally-gripping tale, Abigail, Lila, and Concepción are thrown together and forced to unite to save one another...as well as themselves. Along the way they discover that the forces that have torn their lives apart have also shaped them in ways they never could have imagined...

I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book; in my opinion, the story was intriguing and fast-paced, and the drama never waned. I was drawn into the story right away, and really connected with the characters and their various issues. While this book was definitely interesting reading for me, I still found the story to be just the slightest bit too long.

It may have been as a result of my short attention span, but I felt that the story could have been just as interesting if the story was about fifty pages shorter than it was. Overall, I would still give this book an A! ( )
  moonshineandrosefire | May 20, 2015 |
"Eileen never disappoints you...read them all!" In a collision of fate, Abigail, Lila, and Concepción are thrown together and must unite to save one another...and themselves.
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  JudithDCollins | Nov 27, 2014 |
This is a moderately satisfying story of two families, a thinly veiled peek into the domestic life of Martha Stuart and her best friend from adolescence. There's also a nod to financial malfeasance in the recession, which is catastrophic in more ways than one. Could have been better but retreated into predictable chick-lit conventions. ( )
  neddludd | Apr 10, 2010 |
This book is somewhat predictable but well written. I liked that not all the characters lived happily ever after, that there was some unfinished business. ( )
  JennyMcb | Nov 11, 2009 |
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Tekijän nimiRooliTekijän tyyppiKoskeeko teosta?Tila
Eileen Goudgeensisijainen tekijäkaikki painoksetlaskettu
Ericksen, SusanKertojamuu tekijäeräät painoksetvahvistettu
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Katso lisäohjeita Common Knowledge -sivuilta (englanniksi).
Teoksen kanoninen nimi
Alkuteoksen nimi
Teoksen muut nimet
Alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi
Henkilöt/hahmot
Tärkeät paikat
Tärkeät tapahtumat
Kirjaan liittyvät elokuvat
Epigrafi (motto tai mietelause kirjan alussa)
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta. Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
I was in my own room as usual—just for myself, without obvious change: nothing had mitten me, or scathed me, or maimed me. And yet, where was the Jane Eyer of yesterday?—where was her life?—where were her prospects?
—From Jane Eyer, by Charlotte Bronte
The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.

—Jalal Ad-Din Rumi
Omistuskirjoitus
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta. Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
To my mother,
who is no longer with us
but who I know
is smiling down from heaven
Ensimmäiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta. Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
The last day at 337½ Vermeer Road begin like any other.
Sitaatit
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta. Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
page 28

Company wife (1988-2008)
    Twenty years' experience in planning parties and entertaining at a
    high level. Responsible for managing several homes, making travel
     arrangements, and, most recently, acting as legal adviser.
Mother (1990-present)
    Served two years as president of the Buckely School Parents' Asso-
    citation and eight years as chairman of the school;s Book Fair Com-
    mittee. Organized fund-raisers for the Knickerbocker Greys and
    Madison Avenue Presbyterian, where son attended kindergarten.
    Reasonably skilled at basic first aid, sewing costumes, baking large
    quantities of cupcakes, refereeing, and SAT tutoring.
Daughter (1966-2006)
    Acted in the capacity of unofficial diplomatic liaison during par-
    ents' divorce. Saw mother through final (and protracted) illness
    and, prior to that, a nervous breakdown and several rehabs. Pro-
    vided emotional (and occasionally financial) support to father
    through his second and third divorces, as well as the subsequent
    squandering of his fortune on said ex-wives, until his death in
    2006.
Sister (1966-present)
    Skilled at corresponding with peripatetic brother, who, when last
    heard from, was embarking on an expedition to the Galapagos Islands.
page 216

In the ocean are many bright strands
and many dark strands like veins that are seen
when a wing is lifted up.
Your hidden self is blood in those, those veins
that are lute strings that make ocean music,
not the sad edge of surf, but the sound of no shore.
Viimeiset sanat
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Julkaisutoimittajat
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Fiction. Suspense. Rosie and Abigail are like family, Ina Merriweather used to say. That is, until the day Ina cast out her housekeeper, Rosie, and her fifteen-year-old daughter Abigail. Abigail felt deeply betrayed, especially by Ina's daughter Lila, who was her closest friend. Now, twenty-five years later, an old score is about to be settled, and an old love rekindled. Abigail is now a self-made woman who has built an empire out of the homemaking skills she learned from her mother. When Lila, who married well and for decades lived the glittering life of a Park Avenue socialite, suffers a tragic reversal of fortune, she seeks the help of her childhood friend, but learns that the only opening available at the moment is as Abigail's housekeeper. At the same time, Abigail is coping with the fallout from a fire in her Mexico factory, which took the life of an innocent girl, whose mother, Concepción Morales, now seeks the rich señora she holds responsible for her daughter's death. Abigail, Lila, and Concepción are thrown together and must unite to save one another ... and thems

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