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Chapters (50)
  1. Cover
  2. Praise
  3. Dedication
  4. Chapter One
  5. Chapter Two
  6. Chapter Three
  7. Chapter Four
  8. Chapter Five
  9. Chapter Six
  10. Chapter Seven
  11. Chapter Eight
  12. Chapter Nine
  13. Chapter Ten
  14. Chapter Eleven
  15. Chapter Twelve
  16. Chapter Thirteen
  17. Chapter Fourteen
  18. Chapter Fifteen
  19. Chapter Sixteen
  20. Chapter Seventeen
  21. Chapter Eighteen
  22. Chapter Nineteen
  23. Chapter Twenty
  24. Chapter Twenty-one
  25. Chapter Twenty-two
  26. Chapter Twenty-three
  27. Chapter Twenty-four
  28. Chapter Twenty-five
  29. Chapter Twenty-six
  30. Chapter Twenty-seven
  31. Chapter Twenty-eight
  32. Chapter Twenty-nine
  33. Chapter Thirty
  34. Chapter Thirty-one
  35. Chapter Thirty-two
  36. Chapter Thirty-three
  37. Chapter Thirty-four
  38. Chapter Thirty-five
  39. Chapter Thirty-six
  40. Chapter Thirty-seven
  41. Chapter Thirty-eight
  42. Chapter Thirty-nine
  43. Chapter Forty
  44. Chapter Forty-one
  45. Chapter Forty-two
  46. Epilogue
  47. Extract from Those Faraday Girls
  48. Acknowledgements
  49. About the Author
  50. Also by Monica McInerney

‘What will I wear on opening night?’ Miranda asked. ‘My blue gown or that amusing little lace number my couturier sent over from Paris last week? What about you, Sadie? Will you wear that jumper made of yak hair or perhaps that simply darling little patchoulisteeped handweave I saw you prancing about in last week? How many small rodents died in the making of that, I wonder?’

Leo was still concerned. ‘Clementine, I’m not sure you should go to school today. You really do look peaky.’

‘I think she should go to the doctor. That’s the third morning this week she’s been sick,’ Sadie said.

‘Third time this week?’ Miranda raised an eyebrow. ‘Really? I didn’t realise that. Uh oh. It’s morning. She’s sick. Put ’em together and what do we see? P-r-e-g-n-a-n-cee.’

There should have been a laugh from one of her sisters. There should have been a denial from Clementine. There should have been a rebuke from Leo, and a smart answer back from Miranda.

Instead there was silence.

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Acknowledgements

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Godmothers is dedicated to a dear friend in Dublin, John Neville, who not only handmade my beautiful writing desk, but built my writing attic too.

My fictional Montgomery family’s surname is a tribute to the late, much-loved journalist Bruce Montgomery and his wife Vicki, special friends since we met in Tasmania in 1996. Sadly, Monty died of cancer in January 2020, and is greatly missed by his family and friends. It means so much to me that he was happy and amused about me borrowing his surname for this novel.

Many people helped me with all sorts of research for The Godmothers. My big thanks to Xavier McInerney, Ethan Miller, Ruby Clements, Mikaella Clements, Ulli Clements, Dominic McInerney, Ben Petit, Pavel Barter, Katie Farrell, Dr Louise Dodds, Alan Macfarlane, Melanie Scaife, Catherine Dunne and my early readers Mary, Marie and Lea McInerney.

Thanks to my friends in Ireland, Australia and the UK for their listening ears and bookish support, especially Sinéad Moriarty, Noëlle Harrison, Claudia Carroll, Liz Nugent, Brona Miller, Maria Dickenson, Steph Dickenson, Sarah Conroy, Louise Ní Chríodáin, Sarah Duffy, Clare Forster, Kristin and Graham Gill, Nicolás an Piscín, Joanna and Keith Troughton, Jane Melross, Karen O’Connor, Bart Meldau, Carol George, Noelene Turner, Helen Trinca, Janet Grecian, Christopher Pearce, Mandy and Bruce Macky, Margie and Mark Arnold and Rod Quinn of ABC Overnights.