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Yesterday's Sun - Amanda Brooke (2012)
Life for Holly was perfect and in line with her five-year plan - that is until she and her husband Tom buy a country home in a picture-perfect English village. While renovating, Holly discovers an old sundial which turns out to be a moondial which can show visions of the future with one condition; it's a life for a life. In Holly's visions, she has died during childbirth, leaving Tom to raise their newborn daughter Libby alone. Holly sets out to try to change their path away from this vision. Things get tense when Tom starts to pressure her about starting a family. Will Holly do everything in her power to avoid becoming pregnant, so that she may live or will she sacrifice herself for her unborn child? Yesterday's Sun reads as a flashback leading up to the main event in which we discover the outcome in the last chapter. The ending is one the reader does not expect and will have your eyes tearing up as you read. This is a heartbreaking and haunting read that I enjoyed more than I thought I would. (PP)
How could you ever choose between your own life and the life of your child? That's the conundrum at the heart of Amanda Brooke's novel, Yesterday's Sun. The summary says: "Newly-weds Holly and Tom have just moved into an old manor house in the picturesque English countryside. When Holly discovers a moondial in the overgrown garden and its strange crystal mechanism, little does she suspect that it will change her life forever. For the moondial has a curse. Each full moon, Holly can see into the future - a future which holds Tom cradling their baby daughter, Libby, and mourning Holly's death in childbirth... Holly realises the moondial is offering her a desperate choice: give Tom the baby he has always wanted and sacrifice her own life; or save herself and erase the life of the daughter she has fallen in love with." Brooke, whose three-year-old son died of cancer, says the book is inspired by her own understanding of how much a mother would be willing to sacrifice for the life of her child.