Johnny Be Good
Family Life Fiction
by Bernadette Walsh
SOMETIMES A WOMAN DOES WHAT SHE HAS TO DO TO PROTECT HER FAMILY.
Peggy Lynch has too many children and too much to do. Unlike the pampered wives in her affluent Long Island suburb, Peggy’s not married to a doctor or a lawyer. She’s married to an uneducated Irish immigrant twelve years her junior, and has to work two jobs to help make ends meet. In between the carpools, the laundry, and the food shopping, she also has to make sure her youngest son takes his ADHD medicine so he doesn’t flunk out of high school. Maybe if her lazy husband would get off his ass and help around the house, she’d have time to connect with her children and be the type of mother they deserve. But Peggy lacks that luxury because if it wasn’t for her, the whole family would fall to pieces.
Years have passed since Peggy ruled the house and Veronica is no longer her mother’s obedient little girl. Moving into her childhood home with her husband and infant twins, she’s starting a new life and should finally be happy. Right? Wrong.
While cleaning out her old bedroom, Veronica finds a letter from her deceased mother. If Veronica were smart she’d burn it and leave her family secrets buried with the dead. But as her mother so often said, Veronica’s never been that smart.
She rips open the envelope and proves her mother right…
REVIEW
5 out of 5
Peggy and Veronica…two women from different generations, tied by blood. A warning, this story will rip out your heart and stomp all over it. Grab a box of tissues and keep it nearby. Walsh does an excellent job of bringing the story to life, and evoking strong emotions in the reader. The characters feel more like real people than imaginary inhabitants of a book. This book will draw you in before you know what’s happening, and moves along smoothly from start to finish. An emotional read that is sure to stick with you even after you’ve closed the book.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
When Bernadette is not annoying her fellow commuters on the Long Island Rail Road with the tap-tap-tapping of her computer, she enjoys eating chocolate and indulging in her favorite mind candy — reality TV.
While Bernadette has hopped around genres, from paranormal romance to humorous romance to serious women’s fiction, all of her books to date have a common theme: strong women handling what life throws at them the best way they can.
Bernadette has written seven novels: Gold Coast Wives (contemporary romance); The Devlin Witch (paranormal romance); The Girls on Rose Hill (women’s fiction); Friends Forever (women’s fiction), Cold Spring (women’s fiction), Johnny Be Good (women’s fiction) and See Me (paranormal romance).
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