Yesterday's Sun - Softcover

Amanda Brooke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000744589X ISBN 13: 9780007445899

Publisher: Harper, 2012

Synopsis

A heart wrenching story for fans of Jodi Picoult, Susan Lewis and Katherine Webb.

How could you ever choose between your own life and the life of your child?

Newly-weds Holly and Tom have just moved into an old manor house in the picturesque English countryside. When Holly discovers a moondial in the overgrown garden and its strange crystal mechanism, little does she suspect that it will change her life forever. For the moondial has a curse.

Each full moon, Holly can see into the future a future which holds Tom cradling their baby daughter, Libby, and mourning Holly s death in childbirth...

Holly realises the moondial is offering her a desperate choice: give Tom the baby he has always wanted and sacrifice her own life; or save herself and erase the life of the daughter she has fallen in love with.

About this title

Review:

'A haunting and heartbreaking story that stayed with me long
after I'd finished' Fern Britton

‘An extraordinary debut novel’ Daily Express

From the Back Cover:

A suspenseful tale of free will versus fate--an extraordinary story of love and family, and the risks we take to break free from the past

Newlyweds Holly and Tom have just moved into their dream home, a charming English carriage house in the London suburbs. A rising television journalist, Tom can't wait to fill the house with children. Holly, a budding artist, isn't so sure. She fears that as a mother, she will repeat the terrible mistakes of her own neglectful parents. But Holly and Tom are young and deeply in love, and they have time to decide.

While renovating the house, Holly finds an unusual crystal orb--the missing top to the moondial in their garden. She soon discovers this is no ordinary timepiece. Under the full moon's brilliant light, it reveals the future--a future in which Tom cares for their baby daughter . . . alone.

Holly's new friend in the village, an elderly woman named Jocelyn, reveals the cursed secret of the moondial's power. Now Holly must choose between herself and her future child--a painful decision that will ultimately teach her about motherhood and sacrifice . . . and reveal how far she will go in the name of love.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 000744589X
• ISBN 13: 9780007445899
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336