![]() ![]() Soon after, Theresa takes vows, becoming Sister Cecilia Nora goes on to raise three more children, none of whom know anything about their aunt or Patrick’s true parentage. And Dolly isnt sure if shell ever get back.A compulsively readable work of psychological suspense from the first mile to the last, All the Lost Things introduces a remarkable young heroine who leaps off the page, charts a life-changing journey, and ultimately reveals the sometimes heartbreaking intersections of love, truth, and memory. To escape scandal they deposit Theresa in a convent, and when the child-Patrick-is born, Nora claims him as her own. ![]() ![]() Theresa and her older sister, Nora, have emigrated from rural Ireland to Boston, where Nora’s fiancé has taken a job. Sullivan’s branching story is planted in 1957, when a teenage girl named Theresa Flynn becomes pregnant after being seduced by a married man she meets at a dance. Courtney Sullivan, whose Irish-American family drama “Saints for All Occasions” (Knopf, 335 pages, $26.95) is touched with the same warmth, kindness and gentle wisdom. Few writers today can inspire the feeling of consolation that she so reliably provided. Binchy specialized in intimate portraits of small-town life, and she suffused each of her novels with a benevolence that was almost maternal, always finding the best in her characters, however flawed. Literature lost more than it realized when the Irish novelist Maeve Binchy died in 2012. ![]()
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