![]() ![]() The parents fail to see anything wrong with letting Lily, only fifteen, go out with a twenty-one-year-old man and Alice worries for her younger sister. Alice picks up where her mother has left off by being the cook and carer of the younger two. Mercy is also an artist and there are no prizes for her style of mothering, as it is at best basic. The novel provides snippets of their lives until 2020 and this is one of the rare novels, I’ve read which talks about living with the pandemic, familiar to so many of us. They manage to go away on their one and only holiday in 1957 with the three children. ![]() Mercy and Robin marry in 1940 and while Robin works long hours in the father’s plumbing business, Mercy raises the couples three children, Alice, Lily and David. It’s been a very long time since I read one of Anne Tylers books and writing about family is one of the things she does best. ![]()
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