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A brand NEW thought-provoking story of sisterhood, love and lies
from bestselling author Caroline Finnerty. Sisters Laura and Penny
were once close, bonded together after the early death of their
mother. Laura always had her younger sister's back until one day
everything changed and Penny disappeared. Twenty years later Laura
finds herself alone and at a crossroad in her life; questioning her
marriage and her future. Meanwhile Penny has spent her whole life
running away from her problems until one day she is forced to stop
and face the shocking truth. When Penny turns up on Laura's
doorstep late one stormy night, holding the hand of a shivering
little girl, Laura is immediately suspicious of her sister's
motives. Just what does Penny want and who is this little girl?
Penny carries a devastating secret that will test their bond as
sisters and is forced to make an impossible choice. Can the sisters
find it within their hearts to forgive and unite before it's too
late? Perfect for fans of Amanda Prowse, Kate Hewitt and Emma
Robinson.
'Extraordinary . . . stunning' - Elizabeth Macneal, author of The
Doll Factory 'Vivid details, visceral prose and strong willful
women' - Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana Five generations of
women, linked by blood and circumstance, by the secrets they share,
and by a single book passed down through a family, with an
affirmation scrawled in its margins: We are force. We are more than
we think we are. 1866, Cuba: Maria Isabel is the only woman
employed at a cigar factory, where each day the workers find
strength in daily readings of Victor Hugo. But these are dangerous
political times, and as Maria begins to see marriage and motherhood
as her only options, the sounds of war are approaching. 1959, Cuba:
Dolores watches her husband make for the mountains in answer to
Fidel Castro's call to arms. What Dolores knows, though, is that to
survive, she must win her own war, and commit an act of violence
that threatens to destroy her daughter Carmen's world. 2016, Miami:
Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, is shocked
when her daughter Jeanette announces her plans to travel to Cuba to
see her grandmother Dolores. In the walls of her crumbling home
lies a secret, one that will link Jeanette to her past, and to this
fearless line of women. From nineteenth-century cigar factories to
present-day detention centres, from Cuba to the United States to
Mexico, Gabriela Garcia's Of Women and Salt follows Latina women of
fierce pride, bound by the stories passed between them. It is a
haunting meditation on the choices of mothers and the tenacity of
women who choose to tell their truth despite those who wish to
silence them.
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Pinky
(Hardcover)
Maria Balais
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