Looking
for Charlotte
by
Jennifer Young
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BLURB:
Divorced
and lonely, Flora Wilson is distraught when she hears news of the
death of little Charlotte Anderson. Charlotte’s father killed her
and then himself, and although he left a letter with clues to her
grave, his two-year-old daughter still hasn’t been found. Convinced
that she failed her own children, now grown up and seldom at home,
Flora embarks on a quest to find Charlotte’s body to give the
child’s mother closure, believing that by doing so she can somehow
atone for her own failings.
As
she hunts in winter through the remote moors of the Scottish
Highlands, her obsession comes to challenge the very fabric of her
life — her job, her friendship with her colleague Philip Metcalfe,
and her relationships with her three children.
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So many times I had to sit my reader down and stop and realize just how much this actually happens in families! Sadden to know that our world actually faces the reality of this book. But with saying that this is a must read book! It will have you flipping the pages and holding on tight waiting for the next thing to happen. I am really pleased with Jennifer Young's writing abilities. Very impressed with the story plot and the characters.
*Received for an honest review*
So many times I had to sit my reader down and stop and realize just how much this actually happens in families! Sadden to know that our world actually faces the reality of this book. But with saying that this is a must read book! It will have you flipping the pages and holding on tight waiting for the next thing to happen. I am really pleased with Jennifer Young's writing abilities. Very impressed with the story plot and the characters.
*Received for an honest review*
Excerpt:
She
thought she knew the place where Alastair Anderson had left his car,
and found it easily enough. Under her fingers the map was a flat web
of never-parallel lines, of ugly pock-marking that told of steep,
loose rocks and inhospitable terrain, just the type of place they
used to walk. Somewhere up here, Charlotte Anderson was buried.
Carried there, already dead? Or walked there and then killed? Surely
neither was realistic; surely they would have found her, with their
dogs and their mountain rescue helicopters scouring the ground for
new scars, and all the rest of the equipment they had at their
disposal.
Looking
at the map had been a mistake. It was obvious now. Besides, she
couldn’t see it any more; all she could see was the image of
Suzanne Beauchamp, that beautiful face with the cold façade, like a
wax death mask from Madame Tussaud’s. More poignant, of course,
since it must hide a struggle, a struggle to conceal or to suppress a
deadly mixture of grief and guilt.
‘Go
away!’ she said softly to this mirage of a grieving woman, a little
afraid of its power. ‘Go away!’ And then, in the only defence
left to her, she began to fold the map away.
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AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
I
live in Edinburgh and I write romance and contemporary women’s
fiction. I’ve been writing all my life and my first book was
published in February 2014, though I’ve had short stories published
before then. The thing that runs through all my writing is an
interest in the world around me. I love travel and geography and the
locations of my stories is always important to me. And of course I
love reading — anything and everything.
Links
Tirgearr
Publishing
http://tirgearrpublishing.com/authors/Young_Jennifer/looking-for-charlotte.htm
Amazon
UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00UEVPWIK
Amazon
US
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UEVPWIK/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00UEVPWIK&linkCode=as2&tag=tirgeapubli09-20&linkId=BCEIBFFNYTFZ5XK5
Smashwords
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/526032
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/jenniferyoungauthor
Twitter
@JYnovelist
Website
http://www.jenniferyoungauthor.com/
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