Things we never say by Sheila 0'Flanagan

Nowadays, we've all heard or read or seen films about the Maddalena Sisters in Ireland and the lives poor mothers were living there, and how their children were taken from them to be adopted.

Fred Fitzpatrick, aged 81 discovers it and realises that his first love, Dillon, had given birth to their daughter in one of those convents, and then had died.

He looks for this daughter and her own daughter. They both live in California, but he's only able to meet his granddaughter, Abbey, who comes to see him in Ireland, and he dies.

And his last will raises hell in his official family, as he leaves his enormous house to his American daughter and her daughter.

His two sons refuse to accept the will, and go to the tribunal to get back the house.

His other daughter Suzanne is more friendly, as she never depended on him to make a living.

Those complicated relationships are the subject of this lovely book.

And all is well that ends well, once the question of money is put apart...