Brick by Brick

It is over ten years since the manipulative Sheila Malone tolerated having all her family home in Dublin to celebrate the twenty-first birthday of her second youngest daughter. Yet a further ten years will elapse before they will be together again for another family occasion. During those years three more of her ten children marry and two of her daughters divorce their husbands.

As Sheila's children mature, their lives and relationships evolve and flourish, and they cease to be afraid of the...