The clock on the wall ticked, slowly counting down the seconds until Trina Cook regained her freedom. With a sigh, she tore her gaze from the time-piece and focused instead on the English paper on the desk in front of her. She had to get at least eighty percent this time if she wanted to keep her marks up high enough to get into university.
Home Sweet Home ~ by Lilly Mirren, 2020, fiction (Australia), 266 pages
Trina is starting over after a painful separation from her husband of almost twenty years. Grief and loss force her to re-evaluate her life. She returns to her hometown where she has to deal with all of the things she left behind, a hometown she hasn't visited since high school graduation. When the police officer who lives next door comes knocking with questions about a tragedy from the past, Trina finds herself exploring the trauma of her childhood and facing thepain and stigma she's run from for so long. Trina must confront the ghosts of her past and a mystery that's haunted her adult life.
I thought I had escaped the horrors of exams, except that now I'm doing a language course and have an exam coming up soon... This sounds like a really intriguing book, interweaving the present and the past. I hope you have a lovely weekend :)
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