She mutes the volume on the TV.īrenda: I hope you don’t mind if I keep this on while we chat. Brenda’s a tall, stunning blond with a striking resemblance to the recently murdered Nicole Brown Simpson. I find Brenda Lockhart sitting on her couch in front of the television in her home in Huntington Beach, California. Meanwhile her two teenage daughters are busy making their own bad decisions about lovers and crime. Left alone, Brenda gets hooked on the media frenzy surrounding the murder investigations and eventual trial. Simpson slow speed chase through Southern California. He drops this bombshell on the night of the O. In “The Lockhart Women,” Brenda Lockhart is devastated when her husband announces he’s leaving her for another woman, a coworker at the post office. As an Amazon Associate, I may earn a small amount from qualifying purchases at no cost to you.AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Mary Camarillo interviews Brenda Lockhart This post may contain Amazon Affiliate links. The Lockhart Women (She Writes Press, June 1, 2021) is available through: The ending is satisfyingly rich as these women overcome their emotional issues and become their best selves, strong and emotionally independent. The men here, with one exception, are egocentric, poor providers, physically and/or mentally abusive, and heavily into alcohol or drugs. Told in alternating points of view, the novel shows the inner workings of the three women, their motivations, their consistently poor judgment (even Peggy’s part) and misplaced loyalties to men who aren’t worthy. Though they never seem particularly close-knit as a family, the sudden change in their lifestyle causes an increasing distance between them. The main characters are the mother (Brenda), the older, more serious daughter (Peggy), and the younger, more flighty daughter (Allison). His loss is more than an emotional deprivation as it increases their emotional stressors as it cuts their income and forces them to move to a less desirable neighborhood. The character development is excellent, showing how a wife and two daughters handle the father moving out to live with a new love. The reader can see the parallels between the life of the high-and-mighty Simpson and that of this commonplace family and realize that domestic abuse crosses all classes. Simpson murder and later his robbery trials, and each woman becomes obsessed in her own way with the televised legal morass. Stranded through the novel is the television coverage of the 1994-1995 O.J.
She captures the epitome of a modern dysfunctional family. The Lockhart Women by Mary Camarillo doesn’t read as a debut novel.
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