Between Before & After by Maureen Doyle McQuerry

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Disclosure: I received a free book. Opinions shared are mine.

If someone had written a book chronicling the inner musings of my teenage mind, it would have been a dull read. Most of my thoughts centered around boys, shoes, and crying. As I read Between Before & After by Maureen Doyle McQuerry, I felt like I must have been quite shallow as a teen. When I became a mom myself, I realized that I’d never seen my own mom as a woman looking for her own way in life. It really did take me that long.

So, Between Before & After reminded me of that feeling. Told in alternating perspectives of mother and daughter, the book is full of tragic emotion and hard times. It’s sad and introspective while carrying a burden of hope.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Between Before and After
by Maureen Doyle McQuerry
Publisher: BLINK
Release date: February 5, 2019
Genre: Young Adult, Historical, Mystery

Synopsis:

“The carnage began with the roses. She hacked at their ruffled blooms until they dropped into monstrous drifts of red on the parched yellow lawn … Only two things kept my mother grounded to us: my uncle Stephen and stories.”

Fourteen-year-old Molly worries about school, friends, and her parents’ failed marriage, but mostly about her mother’s growing depression. Molly knows her mother is nursing a carefully-kept secret. A writer with an obsession for other people’s life stories, Elaine Donnelly is the poster child of repressed emotions.

Molly spends her California summer alternately watching out for her little brother Angus and tip-toeing around her mother’s raw feelings. Molly needs her mother more than ever, but Elaine shuts herself off from real human connections and buries herself in the lives and deaths of the strangers she writes about. When Uncle Stephen is pressed into the limelight because of his miracle cure of a young man, Elaine can no longer hide behind other people’s stories. And as Molly digs into her mother’s past, she finds a secret hidden in her mother’s dresser that may be the key to unlocking a family mystery dating to 1918 New York—a secret that could destroy or save their future.

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