Through a Mother's Tears

Longlisted for the People's Book Prize 2019.

When Cathy Broomfield’s youngest daughter Kirsty went missing, Cathy prayed that she had gone to stay with friends to escape her brutal and bullying husband.

But as the days passed with no word from Kirsty, a loving daughter who spoke to her mum every day, Cathy became increasingly anxious, until the day the police arrived at her door to tell her they had found a body. Cathy's worst fears had been realised...

Through a Mother’s Tears is the poignant and heartbreaking story of how Cathy lost not only Kirsty, her youngest daughter, but Kirsty’s big sister Hayley, who died of heartbreak when the agony of her baby sister’s loss became too much to bear.

Praise for Through a Mother’s tears:

‘A harrowing tale that had to be told… it kept me hooked’ - Reilly Cook (Reviewer)

‘This is a heartbreaking true story… As a mother this really affected me. I do not know how Cathy Broomfield found the strength to carry on and write this’ - Angela Hunt (Reviewer)

‘Cathy Broomfield is a brave loving mother and I have the utmost respect for her and her family’ - Mary Thomas (Reviewer)

‘What a heartbreaking read. Cathy, you say you are weak but in my eyes you are one of the strongest women I have ever read about’ - Adele Shea (Reviewer)

Cathy Broomfield is a wife, mother and grandmother. She has lived in South Wales with her husband, Dave, for the past twenty years. This is her first book.