Daughters-in-law

ISBN: 030735749X
ISBN: 9780307357496 (hc.)
ISBN: 9780307357502 (Vintage Canada pbk.)
ISBN: 0307357503 (Vintage Canada pbk.)
Physical Description: print 328 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, 2011.

Summary: As the youngest of their three sons marries and Anthony and Rachel Brinkley welcome their third daughter-in-law to the family, no one quite realizes the profound shift about to take place.Charlotte has no intention of sharing power with her mother-in-law, and sets out to vanquish the matriarch. Soon Rachel's sons begin to treasonously think of their own houses as home, and of their mother's house as simply the place where their parents live, a necessary shift of loyalties that sets off fireworks in their mother's brain, breaks their father's heart and causes unexpected waves in their own marriages. A lovely and hugely perceptive exploration of what happens inside every family when one generation has to make way for the next.--inside front cover.