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Real families aren’t always the ones you know about . . .
When Christine Blacksworth’s larger-than-life father is killed on an icy road in Magdalena, New York, a hundred miles from the “getaway” cabin he visited every month, she discovers a secret that threatens everything she’s always held to be true. Her father has another family which includes a mistress and a daughter.
Determined to uncover the truth behind her father’s secret life, Christine heads to Magdalena, prepared to hate the people who have caused her to question everything she thought she knew about her father. But what she finds is a woman who understands her, a half sister who cherishes her, and a man who could love her if she’ll let him. The longer she’s around them, the more she questions which family is the real one . . .
Attention Book Clubs: A Family Affair is filled with moral ambiguity, difficult choices, and second chances—all great topics for conversation and contemplation. Go to marycampisi.com to get a printable list of questions for your discussion.
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I so loved this book, ” A Family Affair by Mary Campisi” and you will also. I cried, laughed, got angry, happy-sad all the emotions a wonderful book that gives great pleasure.
Christine Blacksworth is informed by her Uncle Henry that he has just received a call from Magdalena. Christine knows her father, Charles Blacksworth, CEO of their family business Blacksworth & Co. Investments cabin is close to that town. In Chicago, everyone demands so much from Charlie he bought a cabin in the Catskill Mountains and escapes into the wilderness four days a month, to sort of recharge his battery and unwind. Who would be calling Uncle Henry from there at her parents’ house? They are awaiting his arrival. Her mother plans a big dinner and celebration each month when Charles returns. Christine knows her father does not like all the fanfare but his wife Gloria loves the ritual. Uncle Harry had the misfortune to answer the phone and now to have to relate the facts to the family of Charles’s death.
Christine decides she is going to her father’s cabin, clean it out and maybe learn what the attraction was. But she receives much more than she bargains for. The more she learns of his actions for the townspeople and their love of him the deeper she is enmeshed in the truth. Charles Blacksworth is an entirely different man when he is not in Chicago. Finding much more than she bargained for and people who change the world for her.
Received this as a free book for my review