Final Payments

By: Mary Gordon

Narrated by: Kate Mulligan

When Isabel Moore's father dies, she finds herself, at the age of 30, suddenly freed from eleven years of uninterrupted care for a helpless man. With all the patterns of her life suddenly rendered meaningless, she turns to childhood friends for support, gets a job, and becomes involved with two very different men. But just as her future begins to emerge, her past throws up a daunting challenge. A moving story of self-reinvention, Final Payments is a timeless exploration of the nature of friendship, desire, guilt, and love.

©1978 Mary Gordon (P)2010 Audible, Inc.

Story from the 1970’s read beautifully.

This story is a wonderful reminder of some of the gender dynamics of the past and how women especially those from Catholic backgrounds wrestled with cultural expectations. The story is emotionally rich with perceptive character development.