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Book Review of Halfway Home

Halfway Home
Halfway Home
Author: Mary Sheldon
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Alexis Donleavy has it all: Wealth, a successful husband and a top notch career in New York City. Yet some days she dreams of escaping her empty, passionless marriage. Some days she greieves for the happiness that eludes her, and every day she desperately longs for her mother, Maggie.... Growing up dirt poor in West Texas, Maggie Royal aimed for greatness and as a Hollywood Actress, she achieved it. Nows, decades later, she has agreed to a rare, revealing interview from her home in Paris. slowly, painfully, the memories pour forth....until she must finally relive the moment she abandoned her eight year old daughter.