Turn Around Gemini
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Outside, Thursday was beginning. Another hot, sweltering, humid day, in San Francisco. Today the temperature was supposed to reach the eighties again. The room upstairs should reach a steamy high in the nineties, at least. Today would be the first day the rats did not go back into the walls when the sun came up. This was the day they waited for all their lives.
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About the Book
In 1954 twins were born to Emily and George Gallagher. Through the early years of their life, Terry and Gerry were subjected to the most violent types of abuse from their father. The mother also suffers from the same abuse and retreats into a world of her own by writing in her diary. In the pages of the diary is the story of the family torn apart and violated by an abusive husband and father and others from outside the family.
Unusual deaths seem to follow the Gallagher twins, starting in their teens and on into adulthood.
When Gerry returns to close the family home after the death of her mother, from an illness, old wounds are opened when she finds the diary from the years past.
Living in San Francisco and working at a local library, Gerry Gallagher needs the help of her twin brother to help her with what she calls her 'problems.' When he returns to help her, the final debts are paid and a feeling of finality comes to Gerry for the first time in years.
About the Author
Shirley Byrne is newly retired from a twenty-eight-year career as Chief Financial Officer of a manufacturing company that produces plastic bags. Hobbies vary from sewing, painting and reading a wide variety of mysteries and true crime stories, to writing her own mysteries and tongue-in-cheek history.
She has two daughters and a husband who all worked in the same business for most of those years. Two sons-in-law and three grandsons complete this family. She divides her time between homes in Wadsworth, Illinois and Marco Island, Florida, living on a golf course in each place and using neither.