Why a Booktrail?
1958: Hartland House has always been a faithful keeper of secrets…
My Mother’s Shadow
What you need to know before your trail
1958. Sent to beautiful Hartland to be sheltered from her mother’s illness, Liz spends the summer with the wealthy Shaw family. They treat Liz as one of their own, but their influence could be dangerous…
Now. Addie believes she knows everything about her mother Elizabeth and their difficult relationship until her recent death. When a stranger appears claiming to be Addie’s sister, she is stunned. Is everything she’s been told about her early life a lie?
How can you find the truth about the past if the one person who could tell you is gone? Addie must go back to that golden summer her mother never spoke of…and the one night that changed a young girl’s life for ever.
Locations
Reset- England - Sussex
- A: National Trust - Petworth House and Park
- B: Preston Manor
- C: Goodwood House
Travel Guide
Sussex
The author writes about the Sussex countryside to showcase the contrast of the haves and the have nots. We see the signs of social inequality and the lingering impact of the Second World War here.
Hartland House may be fictional but it shows the huge homes some people lived in during the war, and how others lived in cramped conditions with many people to one room. There are many fine manor homes in the region that could be it!
BookTrail Boarding Pass: My Mother’s Shadow
Destination/Location: Sussex Author: Nikola Scott Departure: 1958
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