My Mother's Shadow

My Mother's Shadow by Nikola Scott is the enthralling, heartbreaking and mysterious story of a lost child, a mother's secret, and one golden summer that changed a woman's life for ever...If you love the novels of Kate Morton and Rachel Hore you will love My Mother's Shadow. It is 1958. Elizabeth is sent away from her quiet terraced suburb to the beautiful, rambling Hartland House on the Sussex coast, to be spared her dying mother's final days. An idyllic, sunny summer follows amongst kind new friends in this glorious setting.

A lovely but innocent girl, Elizabeth is ready to fall in love, and there is no one to warn her that her dreams are dangerously naive. Decades later, Elizabeth's adult daughter Addie is stunned when a stranger on the doorstep announces that they share a mother. Addie doesn't believe it. Then she asks her father if it's true, and learns that everything she's been told about her early life is a lie. Addie and her new sister Phoebe are at the start of an astonishing journey back to a time of fallen women, domineering fathers and scandalous gossip. They are about to discover the extraordinary truth about their mother...

About the Author

Nikola Scott was born and raised in Germany and studied at university there. Having been obsessed with books from a young age, Nikola moved to New York City after her Master's degree to begin her first job in book publishing - a career in which she could fully indulge her love of fiction. She spent ten years working in publishing in New York and then in London, editing other people's books, before she decided to take the leap into becoming a full-time writer herself. She now lives in Germany with her husband.