Review by Marlene Engel
An emotional story about a mother’s
love, loss and determination to piece back together the family that was so
abruptly taken from her.
On the same day,
every year, Verity puts a message in a bottle and releases it into Ogunquit Beach. She has done this for the past 16 years, ever
since her two month old daughter was kidnapped by her ex-fiancĂ©, Alan. It’s not until Alan is arrested for a similar
crime and incarcerated that Verity’s daughter is returned to her. Now 16 years old and going by the name of
Marni, everything she thought to be truth, she’s now learning has all been a
lie.
Marni was raised to
believe that her mother was a drug addict, forcing her father to flee with her
in order to keep her safe. Now both
essentially strangers to each other, their reunion is anything but smooth. But despite Marni’s confusion and walls that
she’s built up, Verity is determined to do everything she can to get the
daughter that she’s mourned for so long back into her life.
It’s every mother’s
worst fear to have their child taken from them.
The pain and heartache of having your baby taken from you, only to be
reunited and work harder than you ever thought possible to form a relationship
that should’ve been effortless is unfathomable.
Although of very dark subject matter, I found this book very engaging
and difficult to put down.
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About the author:
Holly Chamberlin was born and raised in New York City. After
earning a Master’s degree in English Literature from New York University and
working as an editor in the publishing industry for ten years, she moved to
Boston, married and became a freelance editor and writer. She and her husband
now live in downtown Portland, Maine, in a restored mid-nineteenth-century
brick townhouse with Betty, the most athletic, beautiful and intelligent cat in
the world.
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