Maggie Pink is a lot of things to a lot of people, but does she know who she really is?
Maggie is a mother to a stroppy teenager, a wife to a befuddled husband, and a daughter to two very different women. She has always known she’s adopted, but has she ever understood what that means? Not really.
Following the death of her mother, Maggie finally feels able to go in search of her birth mother Morag, and heads to the Highlands of Scotland with her disgruntled daughter Roxie in tow, leaving her crumbling marriage to worry about another day.
The family reunion is bittersweet, but everything is blown wide open when Roxie unearths Morag’s explosive teenage diaries. Why did Morag give Maggie away? What really happened all those years
ago, and how have the echoes of the past resounded through the generations, like ripples in a puddle?
And when all the secrets and promises are out in the open, will Maggie finally have an answer to the question – who do you think you are Maggie Pink?
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Janet Hoggarth is the number one bestselling author of The Single Mums’ Mansion and the highly successful Single Mums’ subsequent series. She has worked on a chicken farm, as a bookseller, a
children’s book editor, a children’s author, and as a DJ (under the name of Whitney and Britney!).
She lives with her family in East Dulwich, London. Her first book for Boldwood will be published in 2022.
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My thoughts: this was a bittersweet story about family, history repeating itself, and the different ways we express love. Maggie travels to Scotland to learn about her late birth mother – Morag, teenage daughter in tow and discovers a whole life she never lived.
Her aunt Fiona and Morag’s friend Issy bring her mother back to life with their memories and Morag’s own teenage diaries. Which reveal several other kettles of fish. Intergenerational trauma and secrets are revealed as Maggie gets to know the family she didn’t have and Roxie comes to see her own parents in a different light too.
Heartwarming and also very sad in places, this is a powerful and moving book about mothers, daughters and why we all need to communicate better.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.
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