The Butterfly Cabinet by Bernie McGill
Debut Novel
I struggled the entire time with this one. I had a hard time keeping the characters and their relation to one another straight; it felt very disjointed with tangents on politics and religion that had no real bearing to the plot or the characters. The characters telling anecdotes that again seemed to not be related to the plot (I think one reviewer aptly called it "drivel").
The good thing is that it fits my last and final Keyword Challenge for 2020!!
The good thing is that it fits my last and final Keyword Challenge for 2020!!
Summary from Goodreads: Inspired by a true story of the death of the daughter of an aristocratic Irish family at the end of the nineteenth century. The events begin when Maddie McGlade, a former nanny now in her nineties, receives a letter from the last of her charges and realizes that the time has come to unburden herself of a secret she has kept for over seventy years: what really happened on the last day in the life of Charlotte Ormond, the four-year-old only daughter of the big house where Maddie was employed as a young woman. It is to Charlotte's would-be niece, Anna -pregnant with her first- that Maddie will tell her story as she nears the end of her life in a lonely nursing home in Northern Ireland.
The book unfolds in chapters that alternate between Maddie's story and the prison diaries of Charlotte's mother, Harriet, who had been held responsible for her daughter's death.
The book unfolds in chapters that alternate between Maddie's story and the prison diaries of Charlotte's mother, Harriet, who had been held responsible for her daughter's death.
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