Souls of Her Daughters

Can their professional and social standing save them from their traumatic past? Dr Grace Sharvin heads an understaffed Emergency Room at a busy city hospital, and her sister, Patience, a social worker, runs safe houses for women threatened by violence in their relationships with their partners. Both are committed to selfless social service. Culture and gender politics in a troubled land almost ended both their lives. Grace harbours a secret for almost two decades and descends into an emotional abyss when her mother dies unaware of what she had endured for so many years. Escaping to a new country cannot erase the memory and pain of past traumas as both women forge ahead in their careers. In saving lives will they overcome their personal, unresolved pasts? As sisters from different cultural backgrounds, their reactions to their inner demons and commitment to others reveals the essence of their souls as their mothers’ daughters. "Souls of Her Daughters" is a novel on changing values and complicated relationships with family, friends, and society. Through tears and laughter, there is a quiet acceptance that no one is invincible when uninvited ghosts return. A tale of every woman’s terror in unspoken fear and loss. Are friendship and the undying compassion of a mother’s love enough to carry them through life?