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Family Drama is evocative and epic - spanning several decades in the life of the Bliss family - dad Al, twins Viola and Sebastian and mom Susan, aka Susan Byrne, aka the beloved soap opera actress whose untimely death leaves the twins and Al bereft and adrift. Fallon's writing is atmospheric and she expertly weaves in and out of the characters' lives and back and forth in time . The result is an immersive well told story of two motherless children finding their way in a world that believes it knows their mother in ways they never will or could.

We meet twins, Sebastian and Viola, who rarely saw their mother but are now watching her body lowered into the water.

Their mother was a soap opera star that came home infrequently and carried on a long distance marriage with Al her husband.

We go back and forth in time as we learn of the days before she met Al, when they are married, as her career takes off, when she has children, and when she gets sick.

It was very difficult to follow since the time kept changing as well as who was talking.

The writing is beautiful, but the storyline just didn't keep my interest. 3/5

Thank you to the publisher for a copy of this book. All opinions are my own.