Everything Will Be Alright

The profoundly different choices of a mother and her daughter infuse this rich, expansive novel with both intimate detail and wide resonance. When Joyce Stevenson is thirteen, her family moves to the south of England to live with their aunt Vera. Joyce's mother, Lil, is a widow; Vera has a husband who keeps his suits in the wardrobe but spends evenings at another house nearby. While the two sister...