What about Grandma?

by Hadley Irwin

Book Overview

Caught between her grandmother's fierce independence and her mother's solution of a nursing home, Rhys grows up during a summer while experiencing her first love. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380711389
• ISBN13: 9780380711383
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Generations, endings and beginnings

The story weaves a delicate web between an dying grandmother, her estranged daughter and her coming of age granddaughter. Especially the relationship and understanding that develops between grandmother and granddaughter is the topic of the book.Whyn, the energetic and headstrong grandmother of Welsh ancestry is a remarkable person. She has her own viewpoint on things and her own ways of doing things. And a knack for ignoring the conventional ways. She knows her life is ending and this is the last summer she will spent on earth. Eve, the daughter feels lured into the trap her mother set out. She came to sort out things, to sell her mothers house. But in the end she finds herself spending the summer with her mother. They have had their differences in the past but finally the gap between her mother and herself is closing. Rhys, the granddaughter, who on the verge of womanhood finds herself in love with an older guy. Only to discover she seems to have an opponent in her own mother. And who in a very short time discovers more of the person her grandmother is then her mother in all the years before her...