Another that Paddy enjoyed from the library. I guess this is chic-lit, and on the whole I enjoyed it. Made me think about the difference between (say) chic –lit targeted at women and crime thrillers which I normally read unless embroiled in a classic, targeted mainly at men. Lots of Austen has mainly female characters, but I don’t need to qualify this as chic-lit.
Anyway this is about 3 women, grandmother, mother and daughter who each experience different falls, centring towards the end on a bridge off which grandmother, mother (whose husband has fallen off it to his death) and granddaughter all fall (nearly) to their deaths, the gay granddaughter in a suicide attempt, having been ostracised at school and unable to come clean about her love of a friend. All the women have fallen in different ways into forbidden love.
Very good, but I found the chic-lit side a bit hard to deal with – the only real (live) man in the end is a hunk who mother falls for and teaches granddaughter at school.
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