Longlisted for the People's Book Prize 2019.
When Cathy Broomfield 's youngest daughter Kirsty went missing, Cathy prayed that she had gone to stay with friends to escape her brutal and bullying husband.
But as the days passed with no word from Kirsty, a loving daughter who spoke to her mum every day, Cathy became increasingly anxious, until the day the police arrived at her door to tell her they had found a body.
Cathy's worst fears had been realised.
Lume Books Through a mother's tears: the tragic true story of a mother who lost one daughter to a brutal murderer and another to a broken heart/cathy broomfield
