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Published Jun 2017
384 pages
Genre: Literary Fiction
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The New York Times bestselling author of Falling presents a warm, wise, and wonderfully vivid novel about a mother who asks her three estranged daughters to come home to help her end her life.
Ronni Sunshine left London for Hollywood to become a beautiful, charismatic star of the silver screen. But at home, she was a narcissistic, disinterested mother who alienated her three daughters.
As soon as possible, tomboy Nell fled her mother's overbearing presence to work on a farm and find her own way in the world as a single mother. The target of her mother's criticism, Meredith never felt good enough, thin enough, pretty enough. Her life took her to London - and into the arms of a man whom she may not even love. And Lizzy, the youngest, more like Ronni than any of them, seemed to have it easy, using her drive and ambition to build a culinary career to rival her mother's fame, while her marriage crumbled around her.
But now the Sunshine sisters are together again, called home by Ronni, who has learned that she has a serious disease and needs her daughters to fulfill her final wishes. And though Nell, Meredith, and Lizzy have never been close, their mother's illness draws them together to confront the old jealousies and secret fears that have threatened to tear these sisters apart. As they face the loss of their mother, they will discover if blood might be thicker than water after all...
"Starred Review. Green does a wonderful job of creating realistic and lovable (despite themselves) characters. Fans of the author and readers who enjoy Elin Hilderbrand and Kristin Hannah will love this book. Highly recommended." - Library Journal
"Green...presents readers with another warm and winning family tale." - Booklist, review of the day
"Another perfect beach read for sisters, estranged or not." - Kirkus
"All women will recognize something of themselves in one of the Sunshine sisters. Jane Green's best yet. I raced through this." - Jojo Moyes, New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and Paris for One and Other Stories
"A plum of a novel: juicy, ripe and bursting with sticky situations. I savored every page." - Elin Hildebrand, author of The Identicals
"No one understands complicated families like Jane Green. In The Sunshine Sisters, she uses her trademark warmth and wit to bring us a deeply engaging story of parents, siblings, and lovers alike. She is the undisputed queen of the beach read." - Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of Modern Lovers
"An absolutely fabulous read…A superbly entertaining story about sisters that will make you laugh and cry, of course, but also ponder a dead-serious issue of what to do about mom. It's perfect for book clubs. I adored it!" - Dorothea Benton Frank, New York Times bestselling author of Same Beach, Next Year
"You will love this story and share with your sister or your best friend, or both. I know I did." - Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of All the Stars in the Heavens
"Whether you have a sister or not, The Sunshine Sisters is my definition of the perfect beach read." - Lauren Weisberger, New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada
"Shocking and dramatic, but always heartfelt and genuine in its multilayered portrayal of betrayal, redemption, and healing. Jane Green's writing is impossible to resist." - Susan Wiggs, New York Times bestselling author of Family Tree
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Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published.
Jane Green (born May 31, 1968), is the pen name of Jane Green Warburg, an English author of women's novels, who is viewed by many as a founder of the "Chick Lit" Genre.
Jane worked for many years as a journalist, writing women's features for The Daily Express, The Daily Mail, Cosmopolitan and others, with occasional forays into public relations for film, television, and the odd celebrity. The author of many bestselling novels, including Straight Talking, Jemima J, Mr. Maybe, Bookends, and Babyville.
Jane lives outside New York City with her husband and children.
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