Her last promise - Kathryn Hughes

Tara Richards was just a girl when she lost her mother. 

Years later when Tara receives a letter from a London solicitor its contents shake her to the core. Someone has left her a key to a safe deposit box. In the box lies an object that will change everything Tara thought she knew and lead her on a journey to deepest Spain in search of the answers that have haunted her for forty years.

Violet Skye regrets her decision to travel abroad leaving her young daughter behind. As the sun dips below the mountains, she reminds herself she is doing this for their future. Tonight, 4th June 1978, will be the start of a new life for them. This night will indeed change Violet's destiny, in the most unexpected of ways...

Violet and Tara are a team they have never been separated since the day Tara was born. Violet didn't have the best of upbringings and when she found herself pregnant at 15 she left home never to return. As a single parent Violet Dobbs did the best that she could for her daughter and when an opportunity comes along to make a new life for her and her daughter she grabbed it with both hands.  When Violet's latest boyfriend suggests a holiday they are so excited but when the day arrives he turns up in a two seater car making it clear that he only intended to take Violet. Tara encourages her mother to go on her holiday. Her 30th birthday is approaching and she wants her mother to be able to think of herself for once and go and enjoy herself to celebrate. Little did either of them realise as her mother left for her holiday that this would be the last time they saw each other. 40 Years later Tara receives a letter from a Solicitors with a key to a safety deposit box. When Tara opens the box she finds an object that may lead her to someone who can finally tell her what happened to her mother. 

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I have read all Kathryn Hughes books starting with her debut novel The Letter in 2015.  As always Ms Hughes introduces you to each of her characters and their stories. At the time you are unsure how all these characters will interlink but slowly and surely they do as the story unfolds. The story is told in the present and the past and all the characters and their stories come together with a few unexpected twists along the way.

I would definitely recommend this and all the other Kathryn Hughes novels if you have not read them before. They do not need to be read in sequence as each novel is a stand alone story.  

I downloaded this one onto my Kindle and is one of their 99p deals.  If you prefer paperback it's release date is the 22nd August and is available to pre order through amazon.

Happy reading 

Mx