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Book Review of The Sunflower Forest

The Sunflower Forest
The Sunflower Forest
Author: Torey Hayden
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Mothers tell their daughters some of what they know, and nothing of who they are...
But some secrets a mother cannot keep. Some secrets linger and hurt until the pain erupts to desolate her entire family.
Seventeen year old Lesley adores her beautiful, captivating mother, who tells wonderful stories of life in Hungary and Germany before the war. There is one truth of that past, howeer, which her mother cannot tell; and it is growing into a dangerous obsession. Lesley's father tries desperately to save the mother from her memories. But love is not enough...
A mother's haunted present is blurring with the past...the Nazi breeding camp...her little boys' and her family is about to face the final act of a tragedy spawned in violence long ago.