Daughters, Kirsty Capes
Daughters, Kirsty Capes
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Daughters

Author: Kirsty Capes

Narrator: Amber Gadd, Ryan Laughton

Unabridged: 13 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/06/2025


Synopsis

Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones and the Six, a hilarious, moving story of two sisters who embark on a road trip to protect the legacy of their artist mother, grappling with past secrets along the way “Richly rewarding, stand-out fiction.”―Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize–winning author of Girl, Woman, Other When Mattie and Nora’s mother, the brilliant, troubled, and world-renowned Norwegian painter Ingrid Olssen, was on her deathbed, there was one promise she asked her daughters to make: Burn it all. Throw it all away. Ingrid didn’t want any of her art sold, didn’t want it celebrated. Two years later, Mattie hasn’t done anything except for lock the pieces in a storage unit. She’s barely seen Nora since Nora skipped their mother’s funeral. Besides, she has her hands full raising the bold, creative teenage daughter she had when she was only a teenager herself. It was giving birth to Beanie that let her escape her mother’s house—that and the support of Beanie’s father, Gus. But when Nora, an artist herself, falls deep into a mental health crisis of her own, she comes to live with Mattie and Beanie. And when their aunt Karo sets up the very last thing their mother ever would have wanted—an enormous retrospective of her work—the two of them somehow find themselves on the road trip of their lives: up the West Coast of the United States, with Beanie and their mother’s ashes in tow. Told partly in the form of the interviews that comprise Ingrid’s biography, Daughters is tender, comic story of unpicking the scars of the past, and a must-read. “Every word has the touch of a genius.”―Benjamin Zephaniah, writer, dub poet, actor, musician, and professor of poetry and creative writing

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fran on March 03, 2024

You know when you love a book so much you feel you’ll never be able to write a review? That’s definitely this book for me. It’s taken me weeks after finishing and I still don’t think I can do it justice but here goes. Girls really is just utterly brilliant. The writing, the story, the characters (Be......more

Goodreads review by Melanie on May 22, 2024

I started off really engaged with this book. There's no doubt, Capes can write about relationships and mental health really well. But I began to lose interest as the book went on and took me in directions I wasn't so invested in. There were aspects of the dialogue that I started to find jarring and......more

Goodreads review by Emma on February 22, 2024

This probably just wasn't entirely for me in the end. It felt way too long for the story - the blurb promises an American road trip which doesn't happen until almost half way into this 400 page book. But there is some great writing and I particularly loved the more humorous moments between the the s......more

Goodreads review by Kirsty on February 12, 2024

*Bernie Sanders meme* I am once again asking you to pre order my book......more

Goodreads review by RatGrrrl on May 05, 2025

I received an audiobook ARC through NetGalley for an honest review. CN. Suicide, Abusive Parents, Neglect, Substance Abuse, Self Harm (Referenced) OK. A couple of days have passed and I've already consumed another audiobook, but I can't stop thinking about this book and how much I absolutely adored e......more