An Absence of Birdsong: A Romantic, Historical Mystery

Although this book is a sequel it can also be read as a stand alone novel.
SECRETS, LIES AND A MIND-BLOWING REVELATION
A mystery. A love story. You can't help who you fall in love with.

Emma grew up believing that her grandmother, Eliza was dead.

1915 Eliza's mother, Alice, dies before she can tell her how to solve the coded sheets, hidden in a secret compartment in her bureau. The letters which will tell Eliza 'the truth'.

2004 Eliza, in a nursing home in Southport, tells her solicitor that she has a granddaughter called Emma and needs her help with locating the coded sheets.

Emma, desperately anxious to leave Malta and return to England, receives a puzzling letter from Eliza's solicitor, asking her to return to Southport, the town where she lived as a child.

Why did Emma's parents tell her Eliza was dead? What secret is hidden in the coded sheets?

'An Absence of Birdsong' is a story about the importance of love, family and forgiveness. And also about moving on.