I liked this very much- it tugs at the heartstrings by playing off real events. Buchanan has a nice storytelling style. A good read.

Bookouture and NetGalley provided me with an electronic copy of The Lost Mother. This is my honest opinion of the book.

Louise leaves her girls with their dad, Will, to look for her missing mom, Nora McKenzie. In the aftermath of a tsunami in Thailand, a body is discovered with Nora's identification and her bag, but Louise is not convinced that it is her mother. As Louise starts to dig into her mother's life, what secrets will she uncover?

Claire Shreve, a travel writer whose possessions end up mixed up with Nora's, has a past of her own that she would rather forget. When it appears that Nora and Claire ended up together in Thailand at some point before the tsunami, will Louise be able to put the pieces together and find out what happened to her mother?

The Lost Mother is a dual perspective story, telling the tales of Claire and Nora. When the two plot lines converge, readers are finally able to see a clear picture as to how the two women's stories relate to each other. I am not usually a fan of multiple perspective narratives with time shifts, but the format works well in this case. Readers are able to take a journey with Claire, Nora, and Louise, as well as the important side characters. With well developed characters, The Lost Mother is a good story about women who are searching for that which they left behind. I would recommend this book to readers who enjoy women's fiction and I look forward to reading more by this author in the future.