Margaret Forster 
Mothers” Boys 

The attack on fifteen-year-old Joe Kennedy was particularly squalid and vicious. Sheila Armstrong”s grandson Leo, usually a quiet, well-behaved boy, was found holding a knife. Harriet Kennedy cannot cope with her son”s continuing pain; Sheila, who reared Leo, cannot bear the lasting guilt. In a powerful and moving tale of suffering and forgiveness, the two women confront the complex range of emotions that motherhood entails.