My Daughter's Silence
A gripping and thought-provoking novel from bestseller Caroline Finnerty that asks the question: How far would you go, to protect your child?
When Charlotte Daly wins a scholarship to the prestigious St Thomas’s school, her mother Ali – who has struggled to bring Charlotte up as a single mum – is so proud. She hopes this opportunity will mean a better life for her clever, brilliant daughter.
Ali worries, however, that Charlotte is having a hard time fitting in with her new, wealthy peers. Sowhen Charlotte is invited to a sixteenth birthday party by popular boy Ollie, Ali pushes her to go, hopeful that she'll finally make some friends.
Just before midnight, Charlotte calls Ali to come pick her up from the party. She’s shaking and silent: it’s obvious something has happened but she won’t say what.
It’s only the next day, when Ali is at work, that she learns a teenage boy has been seriously injured. Then the police turn up at their house, wanting to question Charlotte about the events of that night. People are pointing the blame at Charlotte, saying the injured boy was last seen talking to her, before he was found unconscious in the pool.
As the investigation deepens, Ali finds that everyone has their own agenda and people will stop at nothing to protect their children – especially wealthy people. Only Charlotte knows the truth about what happened that night. Can Ali get her to tell the truth before it’s too late?
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I am an Irish author living in Co. Kildare with my husband and our four young children. My books have been described as emotional tearjerkers and always have a big dilemma at their heart. I love to explore the different sides of human behaviour and why we do what we do.
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Review By Heidi Lynn’s Book Reviews
First, I want to thank Caroline Finnerty, Boldwood Books and Rachel's Random Resources for providing me with this book so I can bring you this review.
OMG!! I LOVED My Daughter’s Silence by Caroline Finnerty!! She is an incredible writer who writes stories that pull on your heart strings. But WOWZERS with this one went above and beyond what she has ever written before! This book deserves way more than 5 stars as it is my favorite that she has ever written. I will go one step further and say out of 37 books I have read this year this was my favorite!
Caroline Finnerty’s book that would be perfect for a book club where parents of teens are members of. I say this because this book addresses some very important issues that students today face. There could be a lot of great discussions about those issues. However, these issues may be triggering to some.
Charlotte’s mother made me very upset when she applied for her to get a scholarship at a big wig school so she would have a better education. However, Charlotte liked the school she was at and didn’t want to leave her mom. The more the story went on the madder I got at the situation at hand.
My heart totally was breaking for everything that Charlotte was put through in this book. So many times I wanted to jump in and comfort her and tell her everything was going to be ok even if I didn’t know the outcome. On the other hand I was fuming that this could have all been avoided if her Mom didn’t make that decision.
My Daughter’s Silence really reads like a movie on Netflix that you would totally binge watch.
