This is a "ripped from the headlines" type story about a Senator's wife who finds out her husband has cheated on her by hearing it on the news. Sylvie, a lawyer herself, has given up her entire life, even given up taking much of an interest in her two girls, for her husband and his career.
The story is told from the perspective of these three women, Sylvie and her two daughters. Diana, an emergency room physician who can't stand her own husband, and is having a torrid affair herself with a younger man. Her son, Miles, is really what she cares about, and on whom she would prefer to focus. The third daughter, Lizzie, is the mess-up. Newly out of rehab, she is making the best of her wasted life by caring for Miles and trying to become a "normal" person.
While this story was an interesting one, it was largely forgettable. The characters were well-developed, as was the story, but it didn't hold my interest past the last page. Unlike other books I've read and reviewed here, Fly Away Home, flew right out of my head as soon as I finished it. It was a decent story, but not one I enjoyed all that much. I would still recommend it to others, as it was well-written and the characters were not one-demensional or cliched, which they could have been. But I was not wowed.
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