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    The Forgotten Daughter
    The Forgotten Daughter
    The Forgotten Daughter
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Forgotten Daughter

    Written by Renita D'Silva

    Narrated by Justine Eyre

    4/5

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    About this audiobook

    "You were adopted." These three simple words, in a letter accompanying her parents' will, tear Nisha's carefully ordered world apart.

    Raised in England by her caring but emotionally reserved parents, Nisha has never been one to take risks. Now, with the scrawled address of an Indian convent, she begins a search for the mother and family she never knew and the awakening of long forgotten childhood memories. The secrets, culture, and people that Nisha discover will change her life forever. And, as her eyes are opened to a side of herself she didn't know existed, Nisha realizes that she must also seek answers to the hardest question of all-why? Weaving together the stories of Nisha, Shilpa, and Devi, The Forgotten Daughter explores powerfully and poignantly the emotional themes of motherhood, loss, and identity-ultimately asking the question, what would you do out of love for your children?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 10, 2015
    ISBN9781494580414
    The Forgotten Daughter

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    • 2/5
      Beautifully written - I appreciated the author's skilled/talented artistic use of words. But I stopped listening after chapter one. The narrator is good, but a bit too breathy and the whole story feels way to dramatic and contrived. Not sure if it was the author or the narrator but I just couldn't listen anymore. You've got a very stoic unemotional character being described with excessive detail and with overly emotional dramatic narration. The first chapter set the stage - could have been done in a single paragraph, maybe two. But it took a whole long chapter. I got so frustrated and bored that I gave up!