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Breaking the Silence

by Diane Chamberlain

Mothers and daughtersPsychiatric hospital careSuicideSelect MutismFictionAmnesiaMemory lossAlzheimer's Disease

**Laura Brandon had promised her dying father she would visit Sarah Tolley**, but her own agony is drowning out the old woman's ramblings. Her husband killed himself, and the only witness--her daughter, Emma--now refuses to speak. **Desperate, Laura turns to a man she met once nine years ago: Emma's real father. Together they search frantically for the key to Emma's silence, only to find it in an old woman's fading memories of love, despair and unspeakable evil.**

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Book data: Open Library