The Embrace — J.D. Gallagher

When Jessica Goodwin is asked by her dying mother to read her diaries to her, Jessica duly obliges and is slowly drawn into a world of anguish, betrayal, the supernatural and redemption. She dismisses her mother's writings as fiction until the truth becomes undeniable and the conclusion inevitable. The Embrace brings a dying mother and her daughter together for the final time as Jessica reads Evelyn entries from Evelyn's diaries as secrets, betrayal and love are laid bare against a background of poverty, illness and terrorism.