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Ask Again, Yes

By: Mary Beth Keane
Narrated by: Molly Pope
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane.

Gillam, upstate New York: a town of ordinary, big-lawned suburban houses. The Gleesons have recently moved there and soon welcome the Stanhopes as their new neighbours. Lonely Lena Gleeson wants a friend but Anne Stanhope - cold, elegant, unstable - wants to be left alone.

It's left to their children - Lena's youngest, Kate, and Anne's only child, Peter - to find their way to one another. To form a friendship whose resilience and love will be almost broken by the fault line dividing both families, and by the terrible tragedy that will engulf them all. A tragedy whose true origins only become clear many years later....

A story of love and redemption, faith and forgiveness, Ask Again, Yes reveals the way childhood memories change when viewed from the distance of adulthood - villains lose their menace, and those who appeared innocent seem less so. A story of how, if we're lucky, the violence lurking beneath everyday life can be vanquished by the power of love.
©2019 Mary Beth Keane (P)2019 Penguin Audio
Coming of Age Family Life Literary Fiction Urban Women's Fiction
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Interesting but not cheery

This book kept me interested, with good characters and writing. It wasn’t the most cheerful plot though and I think a better book would have had more focus on some positives. Other authors manage light and shade.

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