The Messenger

By: Claire Bamford

Jennifer has returned home after a relatively amicable divorce to discover her family’s big secret⎯the maternal line has the ability to talk to ghosts. Before Jen has time to digest this revelation, tragedy strikes, leaving both her and her mum Jacqui to navigate their gifts in ways they could never have imagined. When a new ‘visitor’ is a missing woman from thirty years ago, Jen is determined to help her; but what will her choices cost, and can she keep her family’s past from coming back to haunt her? Although loss is inevitable and not everything in life, or death, can⎯or, perhaps, should⎯be explained, the strength of a mother’s love and the power of trust can pull us through any hardship. Almost. Also available to order online from Waterstones.