The Drunkard's Daughter: Started from Scratch, see p. 2
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 4:10 pm
I changed the protagonist for the query, which solved a lot of problems. Thanks in advance for your suggestions. Again, the revision is on p. 2
Dara McBride fears that her former son-in-law, Michael the Drunkard, knows the secret she intends to take to her grave. When, after forty years of exile, he returns to New York to reconcile with his son and daughter, she wishes she'd buried him first.
She can't count on her family to support her. Michael's ex-wife, who left him to save her life and sanity, encourages the reunion on misguided principles of fairness. Annie, their adopted daughter, remembers too well that her father broke her arm and nose the last time she saw him. Dara initially hopes she'll hold out, but when Annie's teenaged son demands to meet the individual he knows only as Sperm Donor, Annie's resistance on the subject of fathers collapses.
Even without the Drunkard's assistance, disturbing information surfaces. In a photo from a Magdalen asylum, Annie sees a pregnant inmate who looks remarkably like Dara. Her son, visiting relatives in Ireland, learns that the woman everyone thought was Annie's biological grandmother may have drowned as a child. These suspicious details build up to the explosive secret Michael considers his duty to reveal. Dara intends to stop him, even if it kills her.
Dara McBride fears that her former son-in-law, Michael the Drunkard, knows the secret she intends to take to her grave. When, after forty years of exile, he returns to New York to reconcile with his son and daughter, she wishes she'd buried him first.
She can't count on her family to support her. Michael's ex-wife, who left him to save her life and sanity, encourages the reunion on misguided principles of fairness. Annie, their adopted daughter, remembers too well that her father broke her arm and nose the last time she saw him. Dara initially hopes she'll hold out, but when Annie's teenaged son demands to meet the individual he knows only as Sperm Donor, Annie's resistance on the subject of fathers collapses.
Even without the Drunkard's assistance, disturbing information surfaces. In a photo from a Magdalen asylum, Annie sees a pregnant inmate who looks remarkably like Dara. Her son, visiting relatives in Ireland, learns that the woman everyone thought was Annie's biological grandmother may have drowned as a child. These suspicious details build up to the explosive secret Michael considers his duty to reveal. Dara intends to stop him, even if it kills her.