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WHAT MOTHER NEVER TOLD ME - Donna Hill Harlequin Kimani/Fiction March 2010 |
SYNOPSIS: Parris McKay goes to France in search of her mother, but the meeting opens old wounds for both. Parris finds solace in two new friends who, like her, are coming to terms with a legacy of long-buried secrets.
MAINSTREAM FICTION |4| Dianthia Lemons
REVIEW: What do you do when you find out that everything you have based your life on is a lie? Parris McKay has just learned after the funeral of the woman who raised her that her life was based on lies. Her mother isn’t dead as she had been brought up to believe and her grandmother Cora and her granddad David have known this since the day she was left in their care. Parris is upset and confused but most of all angry and full of questions. She travels to Paris to find the answers to her questions but she comes away more confused and angry. She decides to let the past stay in the past. However, her trip to Paris in search of her mother puts into motion everything and everyone who is a piece of the puzzle from the past and present.
What My
Mother Never Told Me
is a wonderful story that shows what happens when any secret is kept from those
you love. It all started with the secret Cora, Parris’ grandmother, kept from her
husband, David. Eventually, he forgave her but it took twenty years for that to
happen and by then, Parris’ mother was hurt, angry and looking to start a new
life.
Emma does find love and a new life but in her quest to live the perfect life, she has to hide her past. Her actions come back to tear down her story book life and cause extraordinary pain to the man she loves. So many people can be hurt and affected by keeping in things that are life changing such as rape, incest and utter heartbreak. If this story teaches the reader anything, it is that-it’s never too late to tell the people you love what has hurt you the most.
Donna Hill you have written a wonderful novel and I enjoyed reading this book.
reviewer@romanceincolor.com | 14th March 2010