A Recap

As more and more players come into the picture, I thought it would be wise to do a mini-recap of who's who:

Tara Lysander Cavanaugh, energetic, outgoing, outspoken musician and artist, a woman of the 70's who reveled in life and all it had to offer
Richard Cavanaugh, her first husband, a rebellious lawyer, turned company hack
Ian McAllister, her lover, a British violist she meets at a music festival in 1993
Ann Elizabeth Henson, her daughter and Samantha's mother, a conservative idealist, who believes in old fashioned family values
Sean Henson, Anne's husband, a laid back psyhologist, who tends to sit back and watch as Anne runs their lives
Frances Lysander, Tara's mother, although dead, occasionally appears in Tara's memory as a demanding, judgemental, presence

And of course, baby Samantha, who appears at the end of the book as a young woman, finishing the last of her grandmother's letters to her...