A review by lilylanie
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

4.0

Secret Daughter is actually a story about mothers - in fact it’s several beautiful and heartbreaking stories of mothers, intertwined and contrasted, over two continents and more than two decades. The novel grabbed me immediately, and within the first chapter introducing each of the two “main” mothers, I was fully invested and felt like I knew these women. At times you want to shake them for their terrible decisions, at times you want to hug them for their incredible pain, but always they seem very human and somehow relatable. I can’t recommend this book enough.