

Her brother, Davey is bringing his new girlfriend, Camilla, from Copenhagen, and Roisin’s younger sister, Steffie can easily do quite a bit of work: she doesn’t have a husband and three kids to organise, and running her graphic design business from home isn’t a proper job, after all.

Extended family from both sides are invited. Roisin, the eldest of the Sheehan siblings, is insisting that they hold a big surprise garden party for the fortieth wedding anniversary of their parents, Jenny and Pascal, at their Wexford home in Aranbeg. My Mother’s Secret is the twentieth novel by Irish author, Sheila O’Flanagan. “The trouble with secrets, she thought, is that they start to take over our lives.
