Release date - 4th April 2019 (Paperback)
Book length - 384 pages Publisher - Headline Review Worldwide - www.bookdepository.com Amazon UK - www.amazon.co.uk Amazon US - www.amazon.com I want to thank Phoebe from www.headline.co.uk for providing me with a copy of this book for review. ABOUT THIS BOOK A heartbreaking letter. A girl locked away. A mystery to be solved. 1956. When Ivy Jenkins falls pregnant she is sent in disgrace to St Margaret's, a dark, brooding house for unmarried mothers. Her baby is adopted against her will. Ivy will never leave. Present day. Samantha Harper is a journalist desperate for a break. When she stumbles on a letter from the past, the contents shock and move her. The letter is from a young mother, begging to be rescued from St Margaret's. Before it is too late. Sam is pulled into the tragic story and discovers a spate of unexplained deaths surrounding the woman and her child. With St Margaret's set for demolition, Sam has only hours to piece together a sixty-year-old mystery before the truth, which lies disturbingly close to home, is lost forever ... Read her letter. Remember her story ... MY REVIEW THE GIRL IN THE LETTER by Emily Gunnis is a dual-timeline, emotional story that is sure to break your heart. When Samantha Harper discovers a letter from the past, she sees it as her chance for a big story to help her career as a journalist. The letter is from Ivy who was abandoned at a mother and baby home back in the 1950s and her desperation at her situation is all too clear. But as Samantha begins to dig deeper and deeper into the past, the harsh realities and some mysteries surrounding St. Margaret's begins to take hold and this becomes so much more than a story for Samantha. She is determined to uncover the truth even if it is much closer to home than she could have ever imagined ... I'm Irish and the atrocities and cruelty that is our history surrounding mother and baby homes is something that I have read about before and been deeply disturbed by. But this book brings it into focus in such a sharp and clear way, through the letters of Ivy, that I found myself in absolute bits at times while reading this which shows the power of this author's words. There are mysteries that Samantha delves into which are gripping and compelling, but it is Ivy's words and the emotional elements of this story which really made me connect and feel everything as I turned the page. THE GIRL IN THE LETTER by Emily Gunnis is not a light-hearted historical tale but a harrowing story of strength and I cannot wait to read more from this author who made me feel everything from sadness to anger. A thought-provoking tale that will stay in your mind long after you finish reading it. AUTHOR BIO I’ve wanted to be an author since my mum, Penny Vincenzi, got her first book deal when I was 13. We’d spend hours walking and talking about the worlds her characters inhabited and unpicking any plot dead ends she’d found herself in. I absolutely loved it - this is what I wanted to do! Fast forward 30 years and I’ve discovered it’s a great deal harder than my mother made it look! But still, here I am. After graduating I wrote scripts and had two episodes of BBC Doctors commissioned but didn’t like all the input from Script Editors and Producers. So, while I worked in various PA jobs I decided to go for it and just kept learning as much as I could until I sold my debut novel, The Girl in the Letter, which is published on eBook on 1st August 2018 and paperback in April 2019. I really hope you enjoy it, and my follow-up novel which I’m busy researching now! I live in Sussex with my husband Steve and our two beautiful girls, Grace and Eleanor. For more information: Twitter - twitter.com/emilygunnis Facebook - www.facebook.com/EmilyGunnisAuthor/ Instagram - www.instagram.com/emilygunnis/
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