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My Mother's Lies

By: Diane Saxon
Narrated by: Charlotte Worthing, Sophie Mackall
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She’s been lying my whole life...

As if my mum breaking her hip and being rushed to hospital isn’t shocking enough for one day, now in her post-operative delirium, she’s just told me I’m not her daughter. That she has never been able to have children.

The nurse reassures me that people are often confused after a trauma. But I know this woman so well and I can tell there’s a grain of truth in what she says. Which begs the questions: Who am I? Where did I come from?

When I dig into the truth, I suddenly stir up a hornet’s nest of secrets, lies – and possibly a crime so unfathomable – that stretches back decades.

What has my mum done?

Can I trust her?

Or has my digging put us both in peril of our lives?

Diane Saxon’s new, absorbing thriller explores deceit, love, loyalty and family ties.

©2024 Diane Saxon (P)2024 Boldwood Books Crime Thrillers Domestic Thrillers Family Life Genre Fiction Psychological Thriller & Suspense
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Great story line plenty of twists and turns. The story flowed smoothly and kept your attention and interest at all times.

Thoroughly enjoyed it

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While the story appeared promising at the beginning, about a third of the way in I just wanted it to end. It was far too drawn out with an absurd amount of superfluous detail that detracted from the overall narrative. Also, the language choices, and therefore tone, were heavy-handed - which was also exaggerated at times by the narrator - making it sound overly dramatic. And the ending just felt rushed and lacked believability. On the whole, it generally underestimated the intelligence of the reader which made it less in enjoyable than many of the other stories/authors (of this genre) that I've listened to. Although, it has to be said, most of those were pretty average too.

Mediocre for this genre

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