Books on Tour- My Mother's Silence by Lauren Westwood

Some things you can never escape. I should know. I’ve been running away for fifteen years, and now I’m right back where I started…

Skye Turner’s family fell apart the day her twin sister Ginny died. Everyone in their tiny community in the Scottish Highlands accepted it was an accident, but more than one person in town is haunted by a secret from that night...

Skye left after the funeral, believing her mother blamed her for Ginny’s death. Skye should have taken care of Ginny, should have been there to stop her falling from the cliffs that night. Over the years, she’s barely spoken to her mother, until the day she receives a phone call asking her to return home.

As soon as Skye arrives in her childhood home, she knows something isn’t right. Her mother has kept the bedroom she shared with her sister like a shrine, Ginny’s clothes and diaries gathering dust, as though her mother thinks Ginny might come back. And there are whispers in town that Ginny wasn’t alone when she died…

Skye is desperate to find out the truth, but her mother just wants her family back together. As Skye begins to unravel everyone’s lies, she realises the truth might tear her family apart for good…

My Mother’s Silence is a twisty and emotional novel about the bonds between mothers and daughters, and what happens when we hide things from those we love the most. Fans of Diane Chamberlain, Liane Moriarty and Kerry Fisher will be gripped.

'My Mother's Silence' is about a mother and her twin daughters. Sadly, Ginny, one of the twins, drowns while they are young and Skye suffers a car accident which leaves her with amnesia and her mother continuously tells her that she is responsible for Ginny's fatal accident.

'My Mother's Silence' is a fantastic read. It has parts which are difficult to read and I found myself shedding silent tears for Skye as she tries to rebuild her life and find out the truth about what actually happened on that fatal day. On the way Skye tries to rebuild her relationship with her mother and along the way discovers home truths and there are many layers to her mother, who of course is grieving, and although there are many times that I found myself wanting to shout at her mother to talk to Skye and tell her the truth, I also found myself pitying her and, at times, feeling sorry for her.

This is a truly emotional book and I recommend reading it with a box of tissues to hand. 

Thank you to Bookouture for inviting me to take part in the blog tour and for a copy of the book in return for an honest review.