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I am the author of a series of novels about the childhood loss of a parent and ultimately the hope my characters find within themselves from their experiences. My stories are set in historical events that reveal some amazing and little known stories of women’s resilience.
I also write heart led reflections and meditations which I believe have been gifted to me from my experience of sea dipping/swimming in cold water.
A Missing Mother
This is the first novel in a series that explores Stories of Childhood Loss and Hope. It sends a message out to anyone who has experienced the emotional pain of childhood loss that you are not alone in your grief.
The fictional story of little Marianne Bouchard set in 1942/43 through 2000 sees events through her eyes of growing up and then her grown up life – all experienced without her mother. Intertwined with this is Valérie’s wartime story, her missing mother. It reveals the experiences of a woman’s role within the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force or WAAF and Special Operations Executive during World War II. A life that her daughter discovers the previously unknown and uplifting truth about 57 years later.
Was Valérie really who she thought she was? What secrets about the War had her grandmother Winnie kept hidden? From her dining room table, Marianne begins an investigation linking events and clues, then embarks on a journey of discovery to find the missing mother she never knew.
