"Finding Harriet" - Dark Family Secrets Return to Haunt Author

NEW YORK - Oct. 3, 2013 - PRLog -- Drawn to finding her family roots, author Maria Teanby encountered a blank wall surrounding her great-grandmother, Harriet. “Based on the real life of Harriet, who was deliberately deleted from family memory, I felt Finding Harriet was a story that absolutely demanded to be told. It would be easy to assume that, as an illiterate Victorian washerwoman, Harriet’s disgrace was due to bearing four illegitimate children and abandoning two of them. But I felt there was much more hiding in the pages of her history. She was the unforgiven woman.”

The novel is set against the stark backdrop of an iron and steel town in England, where the identities of Harriet and Mia, born nearly a century apart, are forged. Their lives mirror similar hardship, wrought not only by their brutal surroundings, but by the men in their lives. Both have skeletons in their past and both carry the weight of shame. Needing to forgive herself for abandoning her own two children, finding the real Harriet becomes a pivotal point in Mia’s life, but she is bound to her by more than circumstance. The force that moulds these women is Harriet’s terrible secret. She carried it to her grave, and now, at the point of Mia’s own death, only finding Harriet and her horrifying shame will finally lay both women to rest.

Finding Harriet is a story that needs telling so all of us can find forgiveness.

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FINDING HARRIET (ISBN: 978-1-62212-365-0) is now available for $20.50 and can be ordered through the publisher’s website: http://sbpra.com/MariaTeanby or at www.amazon.com or www.barnesandnoble.com.

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About the Author: Maria Teanby was brought up in the steel boom days of Scunthorpe, but left to pursue a teaching career in London before going home once more to find her roots. There she first learned of the secrecy surrounding Harriet. “It was not until I retired that I was finally able to pursue her elusive figure through the pages of history.”

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