"She’s waiting to become a mother—but first she has to find her own.
Weeks away from the birth of her first child, Georgie should be enjoying the peace of her new life in the country, but boredom has settled in and nerves are running high. A viral news story about the rescue of a missing child warms her heart until she sees the photo: the woman who found the child is her own mother, Nancy, who disappeared twenty years ago.
How could Nancy have abandoned her own children? Georgie needs to know before becoming a mother herself, even if it means calling on her estranged brother Dan for support. As the siblings set off on a road trip towards the Scottish island where Nancy was last seen, they don’t yet know that her side of the story has just as much heartache as their own.
Caught between her new life and old secrets, Georgie must make peace with the past. Can she and Dan unite to uncover the truth? And can piecing together Nancy’s story fix their broken family—or are some wounds too deep to heal?"
"'[T]his promising, poignant debut concludes with that vital ingredient: a well-crafted twist' THE OBSERVER
Can Henrietta find out what happened to Annie’s sister—before it’s too late?
Haunted by the past, Henrietta throws herself into a new job transcribing other people’s life stories, vowing to stick to the facts and keep emotions at arm’s length. But when she meets the eccentric and terminally ill Annie, she finds herself inextricably drawn in. And when Annie reveals that her sister drowned in unexplained circumstances in 1974, Henrietta’s methodical mind can’t help following the story’s loose ends…
Unlike Henrietta, Annie is brimming with confidence—but even she has limits when it comes to opening up. Ever since that terrible night when her sister left a pile of clothes beside the canal and vanished, Annie has been afraid to look too closely into the murky depths of her memories. When her attempts to glide over the past come up against Henrietta’s determination to fill in the gaps, both women find themselves confronting truths they’d thought were buried forever—especially when Henrietta’s digging unearths a surprising emotional connection between them.
Could unlocking Annie’s story help Henrietta rewrite the most devastating passages in her own life? And, in return, can she offer Annie a final twist in the tale, before it’s too late?"
"Schon früh in ihrem Leben hat die 32-jährige Henrietta eine Mauer zwischen sich und der Welt errichtet. Das verhilft ihr zu einem Job, bei dem man besser nicht ständig in Tränen ausbricht: Sie soll für todkranke Menschen deren Lebensgeschichte aufschreiben. Ihre erste Klientin, die 65-jährige Krebspatientin Annie, weicht Henriettas Fragen jedoch immer wieder aus, sodass sich einfach kein klares Bild ergeben will. Um Annies Leben zu verstehen und zu erfahren, was ihrer Schwester vor 46 Jahren zugestoßen ist, muss Henrietta etwas tun, was sie noch nie zuvor getan hat: ihre eigene Geschichte erzählen."
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