My Mother’s Secret
by Julia Roberts
Teaser Tuesday Extract

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MY MOTHER’S SECRET by JULIA ROBERTS

TEASER TUESDAY EXTRACT – Kindle 48%

TUESDAY, 8th JANUARY

“Mum didn’t make any excuses not to attend her appointment today, and as a consequence we’re very early for her 11.30 with Dr Ranjid. So early, in fact, that we have popped into the hospital cafeteria for coffee and cake. I’ve sat her down at a table near the window while I queue up to get served. It’s very different from the cosy hospital cafe at Beechmede where I’d sat chatting to Linda on Friday afternoon, but I suppose that’s because it’s at least four times the size.

I didn’t see Linda when I called in at Beechmede with my birth certificate during my lunchbreak yesterday. Grace photocopied it and then handed the original back to me saying she would forward my query about Jason to the records office. I went over in my mind what I’d originally said to Grace and was pretty sure I wasn’t landing Linda in trouble by being more specific about the information I wanted from them. All I really need to know is Jason’s case number and in what part of the extensive grounds he may have been buried. I no longer needed confirmation that my mum’s baby had never taken a breath. I also mentioned to Grace that Mum didn’t have long to live and how I hoped to show her where her baby was buried before she herself died. Grace didn’t make any promises, but I saw compassion in her eyes and knew she would do her very best to hurry things along”

If you still need to know more, here are the opening lines:-

“Taking one last look up at my mum’s bedroom window, I pull the garden gate closed and lock it behind me. It feels cruel leaving her on her own, particularly as it’s the last night she will spend in the house where she has lived her entire life, but I’m bone-achingly tired and I need some rest if I’m to cope with what lies ahead”

And of course, the all important synopsis:-

The phone call comes in the middle of the night, rousing Danni from her safe, warm bed. The police have found her mother Diana wandering along the main road, miles from her house, confused and lost.

Danni races to her mother’s side, but when she arrives, as always, her mother doesn’t seem to care. ‘Go away, Danni,’ she says. ‘I don’t want you.’

When she was a child, Danni would lie awake at night wondering what she had done to make her mother so cold. Now she is determined to put the past behind them and make Diana as happy as she can in the time they have left.

But as some of Diana’s memories are slipping away, others are forcing their way to the surface. One night Diana breaks down in tears and reveals her heart-breaking secret. Years before Danni was born, there was another baby who never got to see the world. Now there is one last thing Danni can do for her mother. She will find her brother’s resting place, and bring Diana some peace.

But good intentions can have unexpected consequences, and soon Danni’s life will be changed forever. Are some secrets best left buried.

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