VERB TENSES
by
M G da Mota
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Psychological Thriller
Publisher: Flowing Prose
Publication Date: May 20, 2022
Page count: 341 pages
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SYNOPSIS:
Thirty-four-year-old
Raquel Whiteman has it all: beauty, a high-powered career, a very rich fiancée,
a loving brother and a stepfather she adores. Life is good. Until her mother
commits suicide. Clearing the paraphernalia of her mother’s life she finds old
photographs and journals which plunge her into a search for the truth about her
real father and early childhood, forsaking everything including her engagement
to travel a path she is powerless to resist. Like a giant wave the past travels
fast and comes crashing down on her, flooding her mind with incomprehensible
fragmented memories and continuous questions – What? Why? Why?
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Her mother’s bed was empty. Only her baby brother was there,
peacefully asleep in his cot. She noticed the room was somehow different. There
were clothes, books, scattered carelessly over the floor; a stool lying upside
down; a chair on its side. The little girl didn’t understand. Mummy liked
everything just so. Mummy always told her off when she forgot to tidy her room
and put away her toys. Her heart thumped again. Something must be wrong for
Mummy not to clean her own bedroom. Her fear increased. For one scary moment
she thought she might have been left alone with the baby.
The screams came again. From downstairs. Hesitantly she
walked towards the staircase, stopping on the landing to look through the
railings. The stairs were in complete darkness but a strong beam of light
escaped through the half open door of the lounge.
The voices were still shouting. They spoke ugly, the little
girl thought. She heard bad words. Mummy had told her that little girls should
never say them. There was a sudden heavy thud. Fright gripped her. Perhaps
there were burglars. She must be brave and help Mummy.
Carefully, silently, moving as she had once seen her kitten
move while stalking a grasshopper, the little girl began walking down the
stairs towards the beam of light.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
M
G da Mota is Margarida Mota-Bull’s pen name for fiction. She is a
Portuguese-British novelist with a love for classical music, ballet and opera.
Under her real name she also writes reviews of live concerts, CDs, DVDs and
books for two classical music magazines on the web: MusicWeb International and
Seen and Heard International.
She is a member of the UK Society of Authors,
speaks four languages and lives in Sussex with her husband. Her website, called
flowingprose.com, contains photos and information.
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Hello Guatemala Paula (what a fabulous name; I hope you don't mind me saying so). I'm M G da Mota, author of Verb Tenses. Thank you very much for featuring my book today.
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