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Great family story about 4 cousins - makes you laugh and cry, and stay up late to read "just one more page"...
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From Library Journal
The glamorous big-money worlds of hotels and haute couture, politics and Hollywood, set the scene for First Born , which intertwines the stories of four women. Each is the granddaughter of a woman she never knew, but from whom she receives a genetic legacy: Cissie, the fiery crusader who devotes herself too generously to any just cause and to everyone she loves; Frankie, beautiful model and actress, yet so insecure that she permits herself to be manipulated first by her bitter mother, then by her agent; Jinx, abandoned by her father and determined to prove herself to the family that will not acknowledge her; Becca, inheritor of her grandmother's unbreakable spirit but driven by it to destroy the half-sister who divides her father's affections. The women and men are all stunningly attractive, the careers challenging and lucrative. But beneath the glitzy trappings, Mortman ( Circles ) has crafted a solid structure of actions, reactions, and consequences. Better-than-average escapist reading.
From Amazon:
From Library Journal
The glamorous big-money worlds of hotels and haute couture, politics and Hollywood, set the scene for First Born , which intertwines the stories of four women. Each is the granddaughter of a woman she never knew, but from whom she receives a genetic legacy: Cissie, the fiery crusader who devotes herself too generously to any just cause and to everyone she loves; Frankie, beautiful model and actress, yet so insecure that she permits herself to be manipulated first by her bitter mother, then by her agent; Jinx, abandoned by her father and determined to prove herself to the family that will not acknowledge her; Becca, inheritor of her grandmother's unbreakable spirit but driven by it to destroy the half-sister who divides her father's affections. The women and men are all stunningly attractive, the careers challenging and lucrative. But beneath the glitzy trappings, Mortman ( Circles ) has crafted a solid structure of actions, reactions, and consequences. Better-than-average escapist reading.
Every so often, a book comes along that is so intellectually and emotionally powerful that it changes your entire perspective on the world. This is NOT one of those books.
Four women...their ambitions ... their love lives
