Alexine and Simon

The book covers topics such as abortion, mother and daughter issues as well as touching on terminal illness. Eleanor the eldest child of Simon and Alexine hates having to share her parents with her siblings and is very headstrong. She throwns kingsize tantrums in order to try and have her own way leaving a path of destruction behind her. The youngest children start to feel unwanted and run away from home causing distress and anxiety. Alexine feels as if she is to pay a high price for loving Simon and sees a familiar pattern in her life to that of her mother who warned her every action has consequences attached to them; sometimes a price too high to pay.