![]() ![]() Her first husband, who was Johnny’s best friend. She threw herself into work the day her first husband died, leaving her widowed at 34 with two young children. She insists on paying for everyone to get together because she has always been secretly convinced that nobody really likes her. ![]() ![]() Jessie is the successful owner of a chain of specialist food shops, but her personal spending is out of control. Of course, each character is nothing like the role in which they are straitjacketed by the family. ![]() And, over an impressively catered palate cleanser of vodka and lemon sorbet, she starts spilling secrets that threaten to blow the Casey family apart.Ĭhapter two skips back to “six months earlier” and another gathering of the Caseys, with each subsequent chapter then leading us closer and closer to Sorbetgate and filling in the gaps to show how they got to be where they are. Jessie is bossy and in control Ed unobservant and a little dull Cara chaotic and rather rude Johnny a bit of a sexist … But Cara, it turns out, is suffering from concussion. It’s a straightforward and lightly comic scene, each character playing their immutable role within the family. A large and happy family is gathered at a birthday party: brothers Johnny, Ed and Liam, their wives Jessie, Cara and Nell, and various children from marriages present and past are enjoying an elaborate meal – some of them more so than thers. ![]()
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