Mothers Daughters Liars - Patricia Roman

Mothers Daughters Liars is a story of transgenerational trauma set at the end of the nineteenth century when gossip and lies had the power to bring a good woman down. In this oppressive atmosphere, an epidemic of cholera changes Tia's life forever. Her father descends into alcoholism, and her mother - on the brink of madness - thrusts her teenage daughter into the hands of a defrocked priest. Desperate to escape her parents' betrayal, Tia leaves home, travelling east to a town near Gibraltar. But she is naïve and unprepared for the wickedness that surrounds her, and when a savage fire devastates the community, she finds herself at the centre of malicious gossip and lies. The ex-priest, a pistol-loving industrialist and a weak, but wealthy charlatan all seek Tia’s downfall, and the only way to prevent her from ruin is if Mariangeles regains her senses and comes to save her.