Returning

by Susan Bowden

Another May 21st is almost safely over - when the phone rings after thirty years and turns Helen's life inside out.
She'd come to Canada from England and found refuse in marriage to Bruce Lawrence. Her first bee had left her to bear their child alone, a daughter she couldn't keep. Helen had schooled herself to forget except on one day of the year - her forsaken daughter's birthday.
Now her secret, her Emma, has called from London in search of her birth mother, and Helen is afraid. Afraid of losing Bruce. Afraid she must return to the sleepy Thames river town where it all began. This is a journey that will take Helen deep into her own desires and illusions - and there's no knowing if it will he an end or a beginning.

386 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1993

About the author

Susan Bowden was born in 1936 in Dorset, England and currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Susan's formal university training was interrupted by a writing career. She primarily works in the genres of historical and suspense fiction, although she has written romance novels and a young adult novel. Susan has been a speaker at conferences for the Manitoba Writers' Guild and the Canadian Authors Association. She has also served as a mentor in the Manitoba Writers' Guild mentorship program. She has done several interviews with Peter Gzowski on "CBC Morningside," and on "Arts Tonight" with Eleanor Wachtel. She has appeared as a regular opera quiz panelist on CBC's "Saturday Afternoon at the Opera."

Reviews

[Sharon Buxton · Rating 2 out of 5]

D. fiction, contemporary; young reunites with birth mother; from stash, discard

[Chris]

Ned. Titel: haar lang gekoesterd geheim