The Lost Daughter

Two and a half stars The story starts in 1930, as Alice Goddard is fleeing rain washed streets in Hull trying to escape a menacing man. She is desperate to get to the police station to gain help to save her young daughter. But disaster strikes. Alice is hit by a car and taken to hospital. When she......more

Ms Broady's tale of Alice, her vile husband, her daughter Daisy starts in the "between wars" years, when the country was feeling the effects of the Great War. Her violent husband assaults her, and she flees the family home, only to be knocked down by a car. In the ensuing confusion, she is hospitali......more

A story about a broken family, love and war. Starting in the years before World War II, Alice is in an abusive relationship, and decides to report the abuse to police. On the way there she is involved in an accident and finds herself in hospital with amnesia. She is blamed for the neglect of her daug......more

I was really intrigued by the blurb for this book, of the woman running through the streets, injured in a road accident and then searching for her daughter. However, that is the tip of the iceberg where this book is concerned. Alice Goddard is the woman desperately looking for help when she is knocke......more