Zee Finch is a psychotherapist working with Dr. Liz Mattei. Zee is treating one patient in particular, Lily Braedon, who has a husband and three children. Lilly has been diagnosed as being bipolar. Lilly is having an affair with Adam, a construction worker. Zee believes he is abusing her and suggests she break off the affair. Zee is engaged to Michael, Boston's most eligible bachelor, but something is always preventing her from meeting with the wedding planner. Lilly's condition worsens, she become very depressed and commits suicide. Zee goes to Lilly's funeral, against the advice of Dr. Mattei. This throws Zee into an emotional turmoil. Years ago Zee's mother Maureen, had been bipolar, but refused to take any medication, and she too had committed suicide. Zee begins to have doubts about her profession. Why didn't she see this coming - why hadn't she picked up on Lilly's suicidal tendencies? Her whole attitude changes and she is acting strange and doing things she would never had done before.
Zee's father, Finch, has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, but has been hiding it from her. She discovers just how sick he really is. She takes a leave from her job to become his caregiver. Finch's long time companion, Melville, has moved out, but is still very concerned about him. Being a caregiver is very hard on Zee. She becomes confused and depressed. She begins a new life which will not only take her into the future, but her past as well.
The book is a fast-paced suspense novel. The father-daughter relationship is based on half truths and her mothers untimely death.
Highly recommended, this novel is a page turner.
