Missing Words

  

Jenny’s life is at a crossroads. Her marriage has grown silent since the sudden death of her youngest daughter, and now her eldest and only child has begun pushing her away. Nobody at home seems to need her anymore. At the Royal Mail sorting office where she is the only woman to have stuck with the job, her position is equally precarious. Though her boss can’t fault her work, he has made it clear he wants her out. Undermined at home and at work, Jenny is desperate for something to change. So, when a postcard from Australia, begging the recipient for forgiveness, but with an incomplete address on the Isle of Wight lands on her sorting table, she does the unthinkable – she slips it up her sleeve and sets off on her bicycle to deliver it herself. If she can’t save her own faltering relationships, perhaps she can help someone else save theirs.

Set in Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight during the turbulent summer of 1984, Missing Words captures Thatcher’s Britain at a moment of national unrest and social change. Loree Westron’s debut novel is an ultimately uplifting story about love, loss, the importance of family and finding redemption.



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