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The Memories We Bury by H.A. Leuschel @HALeuschel @lovebooksgroup #lovebookstours



I'm so pleased to be on the Book Tour today.

Description

An emotionally charged and captivating novel about the complexities of female friendship and motherhood

Lizzie Thomson has landed her first job as a music teacher, and after a whirlwind romance with Markus, the newlywed couple move into a beautiful new home in the outskirts of Edinburgh. Lizzie quickly befriends their neighbour Morag, an elderly, resourceful yet lonely widow, whose own children rarely visit her. Everything seems perfect in Lizzie’s life until she finds out she is pregnant and her relationship with both Morag and Markus change beyond her control.


Can Lizzie really trust Morag and why is Markus keeping secrets from her?


In The Memories We Bury the author explores the dangerous bonds we can create with strangers and how past memories can cast long shadows over the present.


Review

This book on the surface appears to be a tale of complete domesticity. A young married couple with no close support and a neighbour who longs to be able to be helpful, especially when a baby arrives. For a while I felt nothing untoward was going to happen, and the book was really more about the relationships past and present of the the two women; but then the drama unfolded.

Lizzie has her baby and some things start to appear strange to her, she harks back to her own childhood a lot and her beloved Grandad. As a reader I began to wonder if it wasn't just fatigue from the birth and coping with a baby virtually on her own. Her husband Markus quickly becomes quite frankly a waste of space and no support with the baby. What was he up to when he wasn't around?

I realise looking back that there was a huge clue dropped in by the author early on, I remember reading it twice and thinking it strange, but couldn't understand how it fitted in. To say anymore would ruin the book for you. So I will just say that the tale of domesticity that began the book becomes a phycological minefield and the tension just grew and grew. I think the fact that it was such an ordinary scene of everyday life made it all the more frightening and worrying. 

The writing is so very clever. Towards the end of the book, just when I had begun to decide on my own truth of what had happened, a seed of doubt was sown again. Then the very last line of the book - well - it was just genius, maybe a little dark humour? That last line keeps coming back to me time and time again.

I'm giving this book 5 out of 5 stars. My thanks to Love Books Tours for the ARC to review. 



Author Bio

Helene Andrea Leuschel gained a Master in Journalism & Communication, which led to a career in radio and television in Brussels, London and Edinburgh. She later acquired a Master in Philosophy, specializing in the study of the mind.


Helene has a particular interest in emotional, psychological and social well-being and this led her to write her first novel, Manipulated Lives, a fictional collection of five novellas, each highlighting the dangers of interacting with narcissists.


She lives with her husband and two children in Portugal. Please find out more about Helene at heleneleuschel.com or on Facebook and Twitter.


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  1. www.heleneleuschel.com17 November 2020 at 09:19

    Thank you so much for reading and reviewing my book and taking part in the Book Tour. I'm so thrilled that you enjoyed the novel! :-)

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