#BlogTour: The Forgotten Daughter by Mary Wood @Authormary @panmacmillan @EllisKeene #TheForgottenDaughter

Book Synopsis:

The Forgotten Daughter by Mary Wood is the gripping first book in The Girls Who Went To War series.

From a tender age, Flora felt unloved and unwanted by her parents, but she finds safety in the arms of caring nanny Pru. But when Pru is cast out of the family home, under a shadow of secrets, and with a young baby boy of her own to care for, it shatters little Flora.

But over the years, Flora and Pru meet in secret – unbeknown to Flora’s parents. Pru becomes the mother to flora she never had, and Flora grows into a fine young woman. When Flora signs up to become a nurse with the St John’s ambulance, she begins to shape her life. But the drum of war beats loudly and Flora’s world is turned upside down when she receives a letter asking her to join the Red Cross in Belgium.

With the fate of the country in the balance, it’s a time for bravery. Flora’s determined to be the strong woman she was destined to be. But with horror, loss and heartache on her horizon – there’s a lot for young Flora to learn . . .

The Forgotten Daughter is an now in ebook and paperback.  You can purchase your copy of bank here.

My Review:

I’m such a huge fan of Mary’s so you can imagine my delight when I was asked to be a part of the blog tour for her latest book.  I was definetly not disappointed as The Forgotten Daughter is just fantastic!

I loved the main character Flora whose grit and determination to succeed despite her estrangement from her family was impressive to read about.  I found that I immediately warmed to her and found it heartbreaking that she was outcast from her family like she was.  How any mother could treat their daughter like that and not be proud of them is beyond me! Her relationship with her Pru was wonderful to read about and I loved the mutual affection that they felt for each other.  I was very glad that they had each other.

I hadn’t read many books regarding the start of world war one, especially those detailing life behind the trenches so I found the section describing this very interesting.  As usual Mary doesn’t hold back in her descriptions of the events that happened or could have happened there and there are some incredibly hard hitting passages relating to the horrendous experiences of the characters.  These were very shocking at times and I found I had a lump in my throat whilst reading about them.   I really wished I could jump into the book to help them.

This book is very gripping and I found myself quickly immersed in the book.   The action is quite fast paced and this helps make the book very difficult to put down.  I kept promising myself that I’d read only one more chapter before bed and looked up to find an hour, plus many chapters, had passed.  I think it’s the wonderful characters that Mary has created that also helps as I found I really cared for all of them and that I wanted to keep reading to find out what happens to them.

This is the first in an exciting new series from Mary Wood and I really look forward to reading the rest of the books in the series, hopefully really soon!

Huge thanks to Mary Wood for inviting me onto the blog tour and to Ellis from Pan Macmillan for my copy of this book.  If you like gripping, historical sagas with some unforgettable characters then you’ll love this book!

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