The Sunshine Sisters

by Jane Green

The Sunshine Girls is a moving story of love, loss and family by the bestselling author of Falling, Jane Green.

It was never easy, being one of Ronni Sunshine’s daughters. Publicly, she is the glamorous, successful, dramatic Hollywood actress. Privately, she is self-absorbed, angry, and a disinterested, narcissistic mother. Now in her seventies, Ronni has had strange symptoms for a while, but has refused to believe her diagnosis: she has ALS, a degenerative motor neuron disease. There is no cure.

Ronni’s three adult daughters – Nell, Meredith, and Lizzy – are largely estranged, both from her, and from each other. All are going through crises of their own. But Ronni is adamant that they must come home, and help her take her own life. As their mother’s illness draws them together to confront old jealousies and secret fears, they discover that blood might be thicker than water after all . . .

• ISBN10: 144728853X
• ISBN13: 9781447288534
• Publish Date: 15 June 2017 (first published 6 June 2017)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 3 March 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Imprint: Macmillan
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 448
• Language: English

Reviews

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Review:

This book started out a bit slow for me. We meet a young  Ronni in the beginning of the book. Ronni is the mother of Nell, Meredith, and Lizzy,, the Sunshine Sisters. I have to admit that I did not like young Ronni, an aspiring self centered actress or old Ronni, a lonely woman. Ronni was a horrible mother and as a result her daughters have a lot of issues. This book deals with a lot of heavy family issues which the author did a superb job of weaving into this story. I had a hard time, at first, connecting to the sisters but as the book went on and I got to know each of them the connections grew stronger. Ronni is very ill and wants her daughters home with her one last time. There are lots of emotions running high in this books and the three siblings do not get along. They each have their own issues and problems to deal with as well. These are complex women due to Ronni's parenting, or lack of. It was so hard for me to like Ronni and I really did not like her until the very end of the book as she speaks to each daughter separately. It is only then during Mother and Daughters' private moments together that we really get to know who Ronni really is, that is when I finally decided that I liked her.

Conclusion:

This book started out slow and I felt very disconnected to the characters a third of the way through the book.  All of a sudden it opened up for me. I began to get to know and understand Nell, Meredith, and Lizzy. Each sister is interesting and a bit quirky with their own unique story. Ronni's true self is revealed to me eventually. All said this book worked well for me.This review was originally posted on Cindy's Book Binge