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Mysteries Every Thinking Woman Should Read

Yes My Darling Daughter

By Margaret Leroy

Publisher: Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 352

Margaret Leroy's eerily lovely novel Yes, My Darling Daughter (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is one of those rare books you'll sit with till your bones ache. The mystery of why 4-year-old Sylvie longs to return to a house she has never seen, a family she cannot have known, takes this peculiar child, her anxious single mother, and a romantically scruffy psychologist onto the windswept beaches of a tiny coastal Irish village—a setting as enchantingly perilous as childhood itself.

— Cathleen Medwick

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