Our Grand Finale: A Daughter’s Memoir

Laraine Burrell gets the call to come back to England from the United States just in time to visit briefly with her father before he passes away. Following his death, she is overcome with grief, feeling that she has squandered the time she had with her father. Instead of staying close, she chose to travel the world and seek her own goals as a young woman, always thinking there would be time later on to tell her dad all the things she wanted to tell him-how much she loved him, and how he was her hero. Now, she realizes, it’s too late.

is the culmination of that effort-an exploration of both the author’s and her father’s unusual life experiences, and a reminder that later doesn’t always come.