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This book starts out with a family of four. James, Veronica, Emily and Lucy Walcott with the time being during World War II. Veronica is a singer at clubs where there are lots of soldiers. James works two sometimes three jobs to keep the bills paid and food on the table for his girls.

Veronica is an alcoholic. It shows through out the book but it is strange no one ever offered to get her help. I have wondered why the author never had someone talk to Veronica about attending an AA (Alcoholic Anonymous) meeting. Or why when the girls were older in there teens why they were not offered help through Al-teen meetings? What this book does show is the hurt, pain, confusing, anger, and destruction that alcoholism causes to a family. One of the reason why this book received the rating I gave it. Sorry the rating is below I will not post it this early in the review.

James is one of those fathers that would do anything to protect his girls. He goes to such amazing lengths to actually do this. Since he works so much he does not actually see or know everything that is happening but what he does learn shocks him.

Emily is a young 8 year old when this book starts out. She is a confused child and does not understand the mood swings that Veronica goes through with the alcohol. She tries to nurture and mother her younger sister Lucy but has no one who will nurture and mother her. Emily grows up, learns, and actually grows in life through out this book. She learns everything that she should not do as a mother to a child but how does she learn everything that she should do for a child when she is a mother?

Lucy is a young child of 3 or 4 at the start of the book. She does not understand anything except that Emily is more of a mother to her than a sister. If it was not for Emily Lucy would of been with out food, clean clothes and any fun that a child should have.



Emily is the main character in this book. She grows through all the heartache, pain and abuse from her mother, Rosellen, Doug and a boyfriend. Nevertheless she overcame it all to become a wonderful person. Emily became a young single mother while in college. She became a wonderful single mother who loved her child very much and did not allow him to suffer as a child like she did. She provided everything for him. To me it seems a little to unreal that there were no problems, arguments or anything wrong with the mother-child relationship.

The title to this book is hard to comprehend until the reader get to around half the book. Then almost everything becomes very clear. There are so many secrets in the family that I wondered how they kept them all straight. Emily learned early on that there were secrets in the family but did not learn about the secrets until she was in need of a blood transfusion.

This is a wonderful amazing read. I enjoyed how the author had a chapter and verse from the bible at the beginning of most chapters in the book. The author had a great verse picked out to go along with the chapters in the book. While I would not recommend this book to a young teenager, I would recommend this book to anyone over sixteen.

The bunnies and I give this book 4-Carrots.

Thanks for a great read Ms. Sheila Cragg.