Good grief this was painful to read. Clichéd characters that are horrifically unsympathetic, a contrived and only mildly surprising plot, and agrivating writing. The amount of shouting, annoying arguments, and honestly old-fashioned rhetoric was shocking. Especially Nora was so unsympathetic and how much she pulled on Michael that gets "explained" by the finale is unbelievable. The fact that she gave him illegal drugs without his knowledge and it is forgotten a chapter later??? Long suffering finally over now that I have finished this book.