Blog Tour: The Memories We Bury By H.A. Leuschel @HALeuschel @zooloo2008

Firstly I’m so sorry it’s taken me so long to get this post up. I was still reading and had a few things to do as my free days tend to be kind of chaotic at the moment.

So apologies – when this blog tour came up it was a no brainer I’m just sorry I had no time to read it sooner. I’ve loved the stories that I’ve read from Helene in the past so my interest was instantly piqued.

Blurb: Lizzie Thomson has landed her first job as a music teacher, and after a whirlwind romance with Markus, the newlywed couple move into a beautiful new home in the outskirts of Edinburgh. Lizzie quickly befriends their neighbour Morag, an elderly, resourceful yet lonely widow, whose own children rarely visit her. Everything seems perfect in Lizzie’s life until she finds out she is pregnant and her relationship with both Morag and Markus change beyond her control.

Can Lizzie really trust Morag and why is Markus keeping secrets from her?  

In The Memories We Bury the author explores the dangerous bonds we can create with strangers and how past memories can cast long shadows over the present.

Review: The Memories We Bury is an intriguing and all encompassing read. Looking at the complexities of becoming a mother and how our past can hold us back at times. From what I had already read from this author I’ve been intrigued and I’m most definitely a fan.

As a new mother Lizzie feels clueless and quite quickly she befriends Morag and takes the retired nurse at face value on everything she says. Not once does she doubt the elderly ladies motives and she wholeheartedly trusts her.

This full length novel has the imagination and the intrigue that I’m used to with this author, with some added psychological aspects. I’ve found myself second guessing a number of the characters and their reasonings. Even though with Morag I can see how her loneliness and lack of child life around her has made her the way she is, granted she left me feeling on edge and worried for Lizzie. Morag’s character progresses so much and I honestly didn’t see the later stages coming. Markus is a complex character who is used to aid the story from Morag’s point of view.

I don’t know how to fully do this book justice as there is so much I cannot say. Helene delves into a number of complex real-life issues. I don’t even want to elaborate on those as there are aspects that aren’t apparent until the closing stages. The essence of family life and that of the expectation and the reality is so apparent in this novel.

Lizzie and Morag come together as they both had similar lifestyle aspects and you can see why they were brought together. In saying that I did not see where the story was going.

This author writes manipulation well and this is by far her best yet. I honestly was on the edge of my seat throughout I felt every single emotion with the characters and the sadness of grief will make you think of the love ones you have lost. The number of secrets shared will also have you thinking if you ever really know some

About the Author: Helene Andrea Leuschel gained a Master in Journalism& Communication, which led to a career in radio and television in Brussels, London and Edinburgh. She later acquired a Master in Philosophy, specializing in the study of the mind.

Helene has a particular interest in emotional, psychological and social well-being and this led her to write her first novel, Manipulated Lives, a fictional collection of five novellas, each highlighting the dangers of interacting with narcissists.

She lives with her husband and two children in Portugal. Please find out more about Helene at heleneleuschel.com or on Facebook and Twitter.

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