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The Bad Mother

By: Isabelle Grey
Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
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Recently divorced, Tessa Parker runs a successful B&B in a seaside town. During a surprise visit from Australia, a long-lost aunt lets slip a family secret that unsettles her fragile world. In shock, and feeling betrayed by her whole family, Tessa confides in her ex-husband just as he reveals he has a new woman in his life.

Struck unexpectedly by jealousy; balancing her own turmoil against the demands of parenting, Tessa tries to trace her birth father, with devastating results. Yet she fails to see how this is a crucial moment in her children's lives. If she gets things wrong, the consequences could be fatal.

©2013 Isabelle Grey (P)2013 WF Howes Ltd Domestic Thrillers Fiction Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction
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"A moving novel, as a well as a convincing one, and it shows with great clarity how past crimes and well-meaning manipulation damage families for years afterwards" (N.J. Cooper, BookOxygen)
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I only purchased this as I like the narrator - but the story was crap, nothing really happened and the ending very disappointing.

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