Sometimes the decisions we make can last a lifetime… and sometimes we cannot shake off the shackles of decisions made by others in the past.
Kate Flynn has spent her whole life running away. She reckons the best decision she ever made was to leave Ireland the day after she finished school. Having seldom returned since, she would be perfectly happy if she never had to go back there. She is happy … She is happy in London where she runs a successful photography gallery with her best friend Nat, though their relationship is going through a rocky patch since Nat began an affair with a married man.
When Kate becomes pregnant and her partner Ben persuades her to make the trip home, she is forced to confront everything she left behind and memories of Eva, the mother she feels betrayed her. Kate finds it impossible to forgive Eva who chose to refuse cancer treatment while pregnant and died, leaving a young family motherless.
Do some wounds go too deep to ever heal? Must Eva’s Choice forever deny Kate real happiness?
The Last Goodbye is a powerful story of love and loss, forgiveness and new beginnings — a heart-wrenching and emotional page-turner for mothers and daughters everywhere.
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This is a story that has stayed with me because of the decision the mother had made about 20 years ago had such an impact on the entire family. The primary character was a woman in her late twenties who loved her life, her job and worked with her best friend in London. When she was pregnant, her live-in boyfriend insisted they go home to Ireland …
This was a Fabulous Book. I couldn’t put this book down. Connie Finnerty is a FANTASTIC WRITER. I also read her other 2 Books. In all her books, I smiled & cried. They all felt so Real.
Emotionally this was the saddest story I have ever read! How one decision can affect the lives of so many for so long
The characters were interesting & well thought out. I love stories about family-the good & bad. Definitely a tear jerker but well worth it.
This story is a real tearjerker! Kate hasn’t visited her family in 15 years, and she doesn’t return her father’s phone calls. She is now expecting her first child, and her boyfriend wants to meet her family. He doesn’t know that her mother delayed treatment for her cancer until after her sister was born, and then it was too late. It made her feel …
This book made me so angry at times I wanted to stop reading. But I absolutely needed to know what happened to the characters. All of the characters were well developed; you could feel their emotion. Highly recommend – just have a hanky ready.
Enjoyed the characters and how they blended together.
Interesting, just wish the daughter had made amends with the Mother
It has been a long time that a book involved me so completely that it made me cry. The characters and situations in this book will make you feel what they are feeling.
I didn’t really understand why she disliked her family so much. It was her mother’s decision to continue pregnancy despite her husband’s wishes. Everyone was hurting and no one was at fault.
Good read, nice story. Easy reading .
Loved the characters! I want more!!
I spent most the the book wanting to smack Kate. 20 yrs is a long time to act like a 13 yr old. The last chapter or 2 resolved every bit of conflict contained in the book… & everybody lived happily, if a bit awkwardly every after.
This book had a great storyline. Good read
This book is good therapy for those who’ve lost a loved one in her prime. It explores the anger and sadness, but I think the main character would have seemed like an angrier person in general, not just when she returns to Ireland to face her past. Her initial interactions with her new friends in London were creative.
Didn’t like it
Not what I would call clean. Too much foul language so I quite reading early.
The Last Goodbye is well written with few errors. There is some unnecessary language, and it tends to drag on. The story itself is interesting and not what I was expecting.
It was alittle draw out. I could put it down and pick it back up on later.
It was just ok. I thought it drug out too long.