This book was suggested by someone in our knitting group. I liked it a lot.
The review on Amazon includes these words:
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves.
The son of Cyril tells the story. To spite the evil step mother, Danny's older sister (who has mothered her brother since their mother left the Dutch House when they were young) makes Danny become a doctor as about the only thing the two have been left from their father's estate is money for schooling. But Danny spent many hours with his father collecting rents and watching his father fix anything and everything in his rental properties. And he only wants to following his father's footsteps to make real estate his life as well.
You will like the book.
