Daughters
A Novel
Published on 11. November 2025
Book
Hardback
283 pages
978-1-6625-3697-7 (ISBN)
Description
From award-winning author Corinne Demas comes a moving story about the sometimes volatile but ultimately unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters.
When Meredith flies home to New England, daughter Eloise in tow, she leaves her husband and a life back in LA. A heartbreaking loss is killing their marriage. So she looks to her mother and siblings for the support she desperately needs, and the love her daughter surely deserves-two things her husband can't seem to provide.
Meredith's mother, Delia, is thrilled by their sudden arrival at the family farm. But her husband braces for the chaos his stepdaughter and granddaughter will surely bring. Meredith's announcement that she's moved home for good takes the whole family by surprise and turns everything upside down.
While wrestling with her future, artist Meredith is forced to confront her past-and the disappointment she believes her mother, a violin teacher, felt when musically gifted Meredith abandoned the violin.
As Meredith works to repair relationships with members of her family, an old flame turns up and further complicates her life.
Delia, in a desperate attempt to rescue her daughter's marriage, does something unforgivable, and Meredith has to decide if she should uproot Eloise and take off. When Eloise goes missing, help arrives from an unexpected quarter.
When Meredith flies home to New England, daughter Eloise in tow, she leaves her husband and a life back in LA. A heartbreaking loss is killing their marriage. So she looks to her mother and siblings for the support she desperately needs, and the love her daughter surely deserves-two things her husband can't seem to provide.
Meredith's mother, Delia, is thrilled by their sudden arrival at the family farm. But her husband braces for the chaos his stepdaughter and granddaughter will surely bring. Meredith's announcement that she's moved home for good takes the whole family by surprise and turns everything upside down.
While wrestling with her future, artist Meredith is forced to confront her past-and the disappointment she believes her mother, a violin teacher, felt when musically gifted Meredith abandoned the violin.
As Meredith works to repair relationships with members of her family, an old flame turns up and further complicates her life.
Delia, in a desperate attempt to rescue her daughter's marriage, does something unforgivable, and Meredith has to decide if she should uproot Eloise and take off. When Eloise goes missing, help arrives from an unexpected quarter.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for books by Corinne DemasThe Road Towards Home
"Both lighthearted and insightful, with age-defying charm and wit...a totally satisfying (and identifiable!) read." -Elinor Lipman, author of Every Tom, Dick & Harry
The Writing Circle
"Memorable characters and elegant prose, The Writing Circle weaves a web that tightens slowly around you as you read until you find you simply can't put it down...A wonderful book, tense, engaging, and highly recommended." -Karen Joy Fowler, author of Booth
The Same River Twice
"Intelligent and graceful, often moving, a book that walks with poise through the mined fields of contemporary marriage, of motherhood and, not least, daughterhood. Corinne Demas is not flamboyant; she is something far more valuable than that: honest, funny, and gravely optimistic in spite of all." -Rosellen Brown, author of The Lake on Fire
Everything I Was
"An authentic portrait of country life, economic stress, and the tensions associated with a major life change...an absorbing coming-of-age tale." -Publishers Weekly
What We Save for Last
"Throughout these bittersweet tales, women's past losses linger as a white noise in the background of otherwise fulfilled lives...these stories make unsettling, poignant reading." -Publishers Weekly
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Publishing group
Amazon Publishing
Product notice
Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
404 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6625-3697-7 (9781662536977)
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Corinne Demas is the award-winning author of thirty-eight books, including six novels (among them The Road Towards Home and The Writing Circle), two short story collections, a memoir (Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town), a poetry chapbook (The Donkeys Postpone Gratification), a play, and numerous books for children (among them Saying Goodbye to Lulu, The Littlest Matryoshka, and The Perfect Tree). Her short stories have appeared in more than fifty publications. She is the editor of Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway.
Demas is a professor emerita of English at Mount Holyoke College and a fiction editor for The Massachusetts Review. She divides her time between western Massachusetts and Cape Cod. To learn more, visit the author's website at www.CorinneDemas.com.
Demas is a professor emerita of English at Mount Holyoke College and a fiction editor for The Massachusetts Review. She divides her time between western Massachusetts and Cape Cod. To learn more, visit the author's website at www.CorinneDemas.com.