"Mothers and daughters are not entirely different from lovers, she thinks. Both have the capacity to destroy and to reconstruct once more. But with each reconstruction a little strip of skin, a transparent graft, must be lifted from somewhere to seal up somewhere else." writes Kate O'Riordan in this beautiful gem of a novel about the relationships between mothers and daughters. A heart-warming, lilting story, rich in its prose and lush in its description of beautiful Ireland, following the lives of four generations of women of one family. The struggles of these women, their bonds, their secrets and their warm, relatable characters make a wonderful tale - a poignant and gripping exploration of love, loss and the nature of memory itself, "The Memory Stones" is a novel worth reading in all aspects! ( )