When Grief Ends, Life Begins Again
The Third Act is not a novel about falling in love. It is a novel about surviving what comes before it. Kathleen Brehony places her protagonist, Shannon O’Connell, at a precise emotional crossroads: post-betrayal, post-loss, post-certainty. At sixty-five, Shannon is not searching for reinvention in the glossy, aspirational sense. She is learning how to stay…