But Stella has another secret reason that she wants to return to Ireland for the first time in 50 years. She accompanies her mother Stella on a trip to Ireland after the funeral, to meet the family she’s never seen. The character of Annabel had one defining character trait - she loved her father and was filled with grief because he died.
So little actually happens, it’s hard to believe the author was able to drag this story on for 312 pages. Am I too picky? Maybe, but it would have added depth to these two very important characters if the author had at least tried to be authentic to the American vernacular. A few passing references to California, WalMart, and the Grand Canyon did little in the face of almost every sentence containing British/Irish vernacular such as bin bags, article, gone 6:00, etc. I little research would have made the dialogue much more real and would have enhanced the two characters' foreign status and isolation from the rest of the characters which would have made a good novel better. When I discovered that the author was a journalist, it just confirmed my feeling that she had been quite lazy in creating dialogue for these characters. The only problem here is that they spoke like people who had been raised in Great Britain/Ireland. My only complaint was that the main character and one of the secondary characters were supposed to be American-born and raised. It was predictable, but predictability can be comforting. The plot and pacing were good, the characters were well fleshed-out.
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