Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Alexis Donleavy has it all: wealth, a successful husband, and a top-notch career in New York City. Yet some days she dreams of escaping her empty, passionless marriage. Some days she grieves for the happiness that eludes her. And every day she desperately longs for her mother, Maggie.
Growing up dirt-poor in West Texas, Maggie Royal aimed for greatness -- and as a Hollywood actress, she achieved it. Now, decades later, she has agreed to a rare, revealing interview from her home in Paris. Slowly, painfully, the memories pour forth...until she must finally relive the moment she abandoned her eight-year-old daughter.
In "Halfway Home," Mary Sheldon has created a brilliantly insightful, deeply moving novel. Told in Alexis and Maggie's alternating voices, it is a story of regret and reconciliation...and of two irrevocably-bound women who find their way back to each other.