Favourite daughter : a novel / Morgan Dick.
"Mickey and Arlo are half-sisters. But they've never spoken and never met. Arlo adored her father--but always lived in the shadow of magnetic personality and burdensome vices. Meanwhile, their father abandoned ​Mickey and her mother years ago, and Mickey has hated him since. When she receives news of her father's passing, Mickey is shocked to learn that he's left her his not inconsiderable fortune. The catch: Mickey must attend a series of therapy sessions before the money can be released. Unbeknownst to either woman, the psychologist Mickey's father has ensured she meets with is her half-sister, Arlo. Having cared for her beloved father on his sickbed, Arlo is devastated to discover he's cut her out of his will. She resolves to learn where the money went and why. Working together as therapist and patient - with no idea that they're in fact sisters - Arlo and Mickey soon get under each other's skin. Arlo, eager to outrun a mistake in her professional past, is keen to redeem herself with her new client. But Mickey is far from the model patient. As Mickey's personal and professional life spiral out of control, and Arlo uncovers the truth about who her new patient really is, the sisters find themselves on a crash course that will either break - or save - them both."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385699297 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 339 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, ON : Doubleday Canada, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
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| General Note: | Includes discussion questions. |
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| Subject: | Estranged families > Fiction. Fathers > Death > Fiction. Inheritance and succession > Fiction. Psychologists > Fiction. Sisters > Fiction. Women psychologists > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Black humor. Domestic fiction. Novels. |
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A GOODREADS HOTTEST DEBUT NOVEL OF 2025
A sharply funny and tender story about two strangers with only one thing in common: their father.
After her father abandoned Mickey and her mother for his new family, Mickey resolved never to think of him again. Years later, sheâs fine without him. Yes, she drinks, but only sometimesâand, really, she canât not. But with only $181 to her name, sheâs not above attending some mandated therapy to access the not-insignificant inheritance heâs left her in the wake of his death. Sheâll happily kneel at the Kleenex altar if it means sheâll soon be bingeing Bridgerton with a bottle of Russian Standard, five million dollars richer.
One town over, Arlo has more issues than most of her clients. Being a therapist has not prepared her for grief. She adored her fatherâhis laughter, his charm, the smell of his cologne. She thought he adored her, too, but now heâs given his inheritance to a daughter no one knows, and Arlo is at a loss.
But unbeknownst to either woman, their problematic father had one dying wish, throwing them together on a crash course that will either breakâor saveâthem both.