"Chamberlain's powerful story is a page-turner to the very end."
-Library Journal
Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older
sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. It was a belief that helped
shape her own childhood and that of her brother. It shaped her view of
her family and their dynamics. It influenced her entire life. Now, more
than twenty years later, her father has passed away and she's in New
Bern, North Carolina, cleaning out his house when she finds evidence
that what she has always believed is not the truth. Lisa is alive. Alive
and living under a new identity. But why, exactly, was she on the run
all those years ago? What secrets are being kept now, and what will
happen if those secrets are revealed? As Riley works to uncover the
truth, her discoveries will put into question everything she thought she
knew about her family. Riley must decide what the past means for her
present, and what she will do with her newfound reality. Told with Diane
Chamberlain's powerful prose and illumination into the human heart and
soul, The Silent Sister is an evocative novel of love, loss, and the
bonds among siblings.
"Enthralling and gripping...Chamberlain has a gift for telling stories
about families whose good intentions go awry in difficult circumstances.
Her characters are always portrayed with an understanding that sometimes
life's most tragic mistakes require heroic strength to survive." -Book
Reporter
