Mummy Darlings: A Glorious Guinness Girls Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781538724507)

This stunning novel from the author of The Glorious Guinness Girls follows the three enigmatic Guinness sisters as they take on married life and motherhood at the beginning of the 1930s.

It's the dawn of the 1930s and the three privileged Guinness sisters, Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh, settle into becoming wives and mothers: Aileen in Luttrellstown Castle outside Dublin, Maureen in Clandeboye in Northern Ireland, and Oonagh in Rutland Place in London.

But while Britain becomes increasingly politically polarized, Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh discover conflict within their own marriages.

Oonagh's dream of romantic love is countered by her husband's lies; the intense nature of Maureen's marriage means passion, but also rows; while Aileen begins to discover that, for her, being married offers far less than she had expected.

Meanwhile, Kathleen, a housemaid from their childhood home in Glenmaroon, travels between the three sisters, helping, listening, watching--even as her own life brings her into conflict with the clash between fascism and communism.

As affairs are uncovered and secrets exposed, the three women begin to realize that their gilded upbringing could not have prepared them for the realities of married life, nor for the scandals that seem to follow them around.

Author: Emily Hourican
ISBN-10: 1538724502
ISBN-13: 9781538724507
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2023
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/01/2023 pg. 32