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Book SynopsisA swallow flutters its wings into a dimly lit attic as Adele Foyle stumbles across the secret diary of the mother she has never met, and a shocking account of a crime committed over twenty-five years ago ...
Adele Foyle has returned to Reedstown, the last place her mother, Marianne, was seen alive. With her mother''s words etched in her mind and in the pages tucked into her jacket pocket, Adele has one purpose: to find those responsible for the devastating attack on Marianne and see them brought to justice.
Born into a Mother and Baby home run by The Thorns, a self-proclaimed religious group led by Gloria Thornton, Adele needs to first unlock the disturbing chain of events that led to her own birth if she is to understand what happened to her mother.
But news of Adele''s arrival and the diary spread like wildfire amongst the small close-knit community of Reedstown. Old memories are stirring up fresh wounds.
No-one wants the truth to be told. The di
Trade Review
This page-turner is gripping, all the more because it presents the dilemmas of betrayal with brutal honesty - Irish Independent on GUILTY
