Two Irish sisters have received an invitation to their twenty-year school reunion but neither are keen to go. Eleanor has lost her mojo – having put on heaps of weight and her family life is strained. Her older sister, Caroline, would be considered quite the success – she is now a fashion designer, who is dating a much younger Italian man, but she has no wish to revisit the past. The story then tracks back to the early 1990s, and reveals what happened to high-achiever Caroline that meant her final year of school had to be delayed and the tragedy that rocked Eleanor’s world. This is a very engaging, highly emotive story that will appeal to those who like reading stories about family secrets.
The Reunion, by Roisin Meaney, centres around two sisters who have been invited to a school reunion. The summary says: "It's their twenty-year school reunion but the Plunkett sisters have their own reasons for not wanting to attend ...
Caroline escaped the small town where she grew up as soon as she finished her final exams. Now a successful knitwear designer in England, she tries not to think of her school days, or the person she was back then. But in the weeks before the reunion she receives a letter which brings her back to that year, and suddenly Caroline has an agonising choice to make.
Meanwhile Eleanor has her own worries: a son who is barely speaking to her and a husband keeping a secret from her.
When the sisters receive their invitations they are transported back in time to the year they left school - when their lives changed forever. But will they find the courage to return to the town where they grew up and, in doing so, face what they've been running from for all these years?" The Reunion is out in July 2016.