A Sad Family and Their Sad Secrets

An Irish clan gathers for the funeral of one of the siblings. The narrator of this book says she'd like to put down in writing what happened at her grandmother's house when she "was eight or nine", and so the book starts. For me, it dragged, with far too much detail, when I had a pretty good idea of what happened in that first sentence. It's a story lots of families have lurking in their past, and I'll bet the somber mood was accurate if that's your tale to tell. Just for me, a dark, plodding book.