The Last Goodbye

Kate Flynn left Ireland the day she finished school. She now lives in London, where she runs a photography gallery with her best friend Nat, and she has built her adult life around not looking back.

Then Kate becomes pregnant, unexpectedly. Her partner Ben insists that they visit her family in Ireland, and she has to return to the home and the past she has avoided for years.

The centre of that past is her mother, Eva. Eva was diagnosed with cancer while she was pregnant and refused treatment so as to protect the baby. She died, and her young children grew up without her.

Kate has never forgiven that decision. Back among her relatives, and close to becoming a mother herself, she can no longer put off facing it.

Guilt, grief and forgiveness drive this emotional family drama. The question it turns on is whether Kate can understand a choice she has resented for most of her life before her own child arrives.