This novel explores the husband/wife, mother/son, and mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationships. Arla is sick of always feeling that she comes in at only second best to her mother-in-law, who much to Arla's fury is never told anything by Ric or his sisters that she would not want to hear. Husband Ric will never voice an opinion, and puts his mother Edna up high on a pedestal. In addition it focuses on the sometimes tumultuous partnership between Arla and her husband Ric.Īrla Deane sometimes likens her marriage to undergoing daily psychological warfare.
The Daughter-in-law Syndrome investigates the complicated relationship causing much friction between Grandmother Edna Deane and her daughter-in-law Arla.
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