The Storyteller’s Daughter by Victoria Scott 

This was a lovely story, told in 2 timelines. Beth’s story in 2008 and her Great Aunt Nita at the age of 21 in 1940. It’s a tale of family relationships – both good and bad, history, mystery, and personal values.

It’s 2008, and Beth works for the family business – which she is not enjoying, and having said the wrong thing to the press she is now on gardening leave. When she hears that her beloved Great Aunt Nita is dying, she goes to see her and is there when she passes away. This brings back very happy memories of her childhood with her Great Aunt and she wonders why she hadn’t been there for a while. Before Nita passes, in a lucid moment she tells Beth about a secret in the attic. As Beth and her husband’s marriage comes to an end, Beth finds herself spending more and more time at her Great Aunt’s home with and without her children, and spends time trying to work out the secret that Nita was trying to tell her.

 A beautiful story that kept me enthralled to the end. I hadn’t heard of Victoria Scott but I will be looking out for further books of hers.

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