GENRE: Psychological Thriller
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BLURB:
Thirty-four-year-old Raquel Whiteman has it all: beauty, a high-powered career, a very rich
fiancée, a loving brother and a stepfather she adores. Life is good. Until her mother commits
suicide. Clearing the paraphernalia of her mother’s life she finds old photographs and journals
which plunge her into a search for the truth about her real father and early childhood, forsaking
everything including her engagement to travel a path she is powerless to resist. Like a giant
wave the past travels fast and comes crashing down on her, flooding her mind with
incomprehensible fragmented memories and continuous questions – What? Why? Why?
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EXCERPT:
Her mother’s bed was empty. Only her baby brother was there, peacefully asleep in his cot. She
noticed the room was somehow different. There were clothes, books, scattered carelessly over
the floor; a stool lying upside down; a chair on its side. The little girl didn’t understand. Mummy
liked everything just so. Mummy always told her off when she forgot to tidy her room and put
away her toys. Her heart thumped again. Something must be wrong for Mummy not to clean her
own bedroom. Her fear increased. For one scary moment she thought she might have been left
alone with the baby.
The screams came again. From downstairs. Hesitantly she walked towards the staircase,
stopping on the landing to look through the railings. The stairs were in complete darkness but a
strong beam of light escaped through the half open door of the lounge.
The voices were still shouting. They spoke ugly, the little girl thought. She heard bad words.
Mummy had told her that little girls should never say them. There was a sudden heavy thud.
Fright gripped her. Perhaps there were burglars. She must be brave and help Mummy.
Carefully, silently, moving as she had once seen her kitten move while stalking a grasshopper,
the little girl began walking down the stairs towards the beam of light.
AUTHOR:
M G da Mota is Margarida Mota-Bull’s pen name for fiction. She is a Portuguese-British novelist
with a love for classical music, ballet and opera. Under her real name she also writes reviews of
live concerts, CDs, DVDs and books for two classical music magazines on the web: MusicWeb
International and Seen and Heard International. She is a member of the UK Society of Authors,
speaks four languages and lives in Sussex with her husband. Her website, called
flowingprose.com, contains photos and information.
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