Good Eggs is a debut novel by Rebecca Hardiman.
It is a story of three generations of the Gogarty family in Dublin, Ireland that is told with enough humor to make it endearing. While the main characters all have issues, they are generally “good eggs” who deserve a second chance.
"Good Eggs" is a delightful, playful story that matched my mood for reading something relatively light. It is set in current day Ireland, which is interesting to me. The key characters are: octogenarian Millie, her son Kevin and granddaughter Aideen. Each have their own troubles.
Millie Gogarty is a strong willed 83 year old who is caught shoplifting. Her son, Kevin, has had enough and sets Millie up with a home aide. Kevin has plenty more problems than his mother committing petty crimes. He is unemployed and unable to find work, leaving his wife to work long hours at an airline to keep the family afloat. Kevin is also dealing with his 16 year old daughter's outbursts, which have gotten out of hand and now he has to put her into a boarding school. Both Millie and her granddaughter find themselves in a mess and team up to solve things but they end up going awry.
It is a story of three generations of the Gogarty family in Dublin, Ireland that is told with enough humor to make it endearing. While the main characters all have issues, they are generally “good eggs” who deserve a second chance.
"Good Eggs" is a delightful, playful story that matched my mood for reading something relatively light. It is set in current day Ireland, which is interesting to me. The key characters are: octogenarian Millie, her son Kevin and granddaughter Aideen. Each have their own troubles.
Millie Gogarty is a strong willed 83 year old who is caught shoplifting. Her son, Kevin, has had enough and sets Millie up with a home aide. Kevin has plenty more problems than his mother committing petty crimes. He is unemployed and unable to find work, leaving his wife to work long hours at an airline to keep the family afloat. Kevin is also dealing with his 16 year old daughter's outbursts, which have gotten out of hand and now he has to put her into a boarding school. Both Millie and her granddaughter find themselves in a mess and team up to solve things but they end up going awry.