The Prodigal Sister - Laura Elliot

Can a black sheep ever return to the flock?

Accompany the Lambert sisters on their unforgettable journey - fans of Anita Shreve and Rosie Thomas wll be spellbound.

Orphaned at the age of eight, 15-year-old Cathy Lambert runs away from home in Ireland. Pregnant and destitute, she arrives in London and gives birth to a son. They settle in New Zealand where she builds a successful life for herself and Conor. Sixteen years later, she is getting married and is anxious to make peace with her three sisters. Overcoming her fears, she makes contact and invites them to her wedding.

Rebecca Lambert was eighteen when her parents died. She took on the responsibility of rearing her younger sisters and eventually married the charming but fickle Jeremy Anderson. Sixteen years have passed since Cathy ran away, and Rebecca embarked on an unsuccessful journey to find her. As Rebecca journeys towards this New Zealand reunion, she is haunted by suspicions she believed she conquered many years earlier.

Julie Chamber is the mother of three sons, and wife to Paul, with whom she now runs a successful software company. Freed from family responsibilities for the first time since her marriage at eighteen, she is determined to recapture the freedom and dreams she lost in her youth.

Lauren Moran, spoiled, beautiful and highly-strung, is married to a possessive and wealthy older man. On the journey to New Zealand, she embarks on a frantic love affair that threatens to destabilise the fragile world she has created around herself.

Drawing them towards her is the rebellious Cathy who built a faade around the identity of her son's father and hopes she can finally lay the past to rest.