A Mother’s Secret

Renita D'Silva

2022年3月 · Bolinda · 旁述：Nikki Patel

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What if you discovered everything you knew about yourself as a lie? When pregnant Jaya loses her mother, then her baby son Arun in a tragic cot death, her world crashes down. Overcome by grief and guilt, she begins to look for answers. Looking through her mother’s belongings, she finds two diaries and old photographs, carrying the smoky aroma of fire. A young boy smiles out at Jaya from every photograph – and in one, a family stand proudly in front of a sprawling mansion. Who is this child? And why did her mother treasure this memento of a regal family lost to the past? As Jaya starts to read the diaries, their secrets lead her back to India, to the ruin of a once grand house on a hill. There, Kali, wizened and confused, half-living in a world of memory and fantasy, will unlock the story of a devastating lie and a fire that tore a family apart. Nothing, though, will prepare Jaya for the house’s final revelation, which will change everything Jaya knew about herself.

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Renita D’Silva loves stories, both reading and creating them. Her short stories have been published in ‘The View from Here’, ‘Bartleby Snopes’, ‘this zine’, ‘Platinum Page’, ‘Paragraph Planet’ among others and have been nominated for the ‘Pushcart’ prize and the ‘Best of the Net’ anthology. She is the author of ‘Monsoon Memories’, ‘The Forgotten Daughter’, ‘The Stolen Girl’, ‘A Sister’s Promise’, ‘A Mother’s Secret’, ‘A Daughter’s Courage’, ‘Beneath An Indian Sky’.

Nikki Patel is a British actress and voice artist. Having started her acting career as a teenager, her character driven performances now expand across a wide range of voice work too. Most recently Nikki has lent her voice to numerous audiobooks, video games and more. Her screen credits include Call The Midwife (BBC), Matilda (Netflix) and Little English (Resource Productions). Her stage work includes Kenneth Branagh’s Romeo & Juliet in the West End, Future Conditional at the Old Vic and Sunshine on Leith at West Yorkshire Playhouse.