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ClareR (6182 KP) rated The Silence In Between in Books

Dec 2, 2024  
The Silence In Between
The Silence In Between
Josie Ferguson | 2024 | Fiction & Poetry
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
The Silence In Between is a dual timeline story. In 1961, Lisette takes her sick baby to a West Berlin hospital for treatment. She returns to her home in the East of the city to wash, change clothes and have some sleep, and the next morning she wakes to find the Wall has been erected overnight. She can’t go back for her baby. This traumatic event causes her to lose her voice - which takes her back to the war and the last time she lost her voice.

Lisette lived in Berlin with her mother, and during the last days of WW2, she experienced what many women did at the hands of the Russians. This is brutal, and explains a lot about why Lisette is the mother she is to her daughter Elly.

Elly knows that the only way to make her mother happy is to get the baby back - no matter the cost. She’s a brave, resourceful young woman, who takes death defying risks for her mother.

There’s a lot of hope in this book of survival and loss. Elly is a symbol of determination - she never gives up, and her family is at the heart of all her actions.

The two female characters, mother and daughter, are exceptional women. The history behind their lives has been well researched and is believable, and their story has stayed with me well after finishing this book.

Highly recommended.
  
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MrsR (11 KP) rated Broken Child in Books

Aug 16, 2018  
Broken Child
Broken Child
Marcia Cameron | 1995 | Biography
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Based on a true stort
Contains spoilers, click to show
This powerful tale takes readers on a harrowing, unforgettable journey into the nightmare of parental abuse and the darkness of mental illness. Written by a woman who endured horrendous abuse from her mother and became a split personality by the age of five, here is the story of her agonizing childhood, the conflicting personalties, and struggle back to sanity.

Marcia was a toddler when she first recalls the abuse. Her mother a devoted Hitler youth , who moved to America. Didnt love her daughter because she was half Jewish and looked so. This book is not for the weak of heart. You will be moved and emotional at how a mother can do this and the struggle Marcia faced to get to "normal" life.
  
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MissCagey (2652 KP) rated Trauma in TV

Feb 17, 2018  
Trauma
Trauma
2018 | Thriller
4
6.5 (13 Ratings)
TV Show Rating
So disappointed with this series. It could have been and should have been so much better., the premise was a great one.The two lead actors are well respected but were let down by bad ideas. John Sim's character can apparently "read" people better than "Lie to me's" Tim Roth. He then turns into some kind of psychopath in order to find the truth. I can understand a parent's need to want the truth but to go that far, I don't think so. He manages to firstly access the operating theatre, then get a job at the hospital and then enter a closed meeting all with ease. Then he hoodwinks the daughter and wife of the doctor to gain access to their house. The daughter apparently just stays upstairs whilst the mother is at knife-point downstairs, the mother does not back off even though he is brandishing a knife and then at the end the daughter is more angry with her father, cause of his lies, rather than the knife-wielding maniac that's just threatened them all? Just made me frustrated and annoyed. Grrr
  
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Dianne Robbins (1738 KP) created a post

Sep 5, 2018  
I'm currently reading The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain and highly recommend it. It's a page-turner and I can't read it fast enough. I have to block the text on the right side when reading the left because I just wanna know what happens! It"s a thrilling ride through the past and present through time-travel and goes to prove that a mother would do anything for her child.
      
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Kevin Phillipson (10072 KP) rated Train to Busan (2016) in Movies

Jan 9, 2020  
Train to Busan (2016)
Train to Busan (2016)
2016 | Action, Drama, Horror
9
8.5 (39 Ratings)
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Zombies
One of the best zombie films I've seen in a long time which isn't American perfect setting on a train as u watch the main character trying to protect his daughter from a zombie outbreak while taking a train to visit his daughters mother the zombie effects are amazing the characters are likeable u want them to survive to the end of the movie highly recommend