The Forgotten Sister
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A heart-rending, profoundly moving novel about protecting the ones you love from the secrets that will hurt them most. Cassie and Erin are sisters. They are close - in age, looks and personality - but there is one crucial difference: Cassie is adopted. At seventeen, Cassie sets out to find her birth mother. She is hungry for the truth, but she discovers her adoption was far more complicated than even she could have imagined. In uncovering her real identity Cassie learns her adoptive parents have kept a terrible secret from her her whole life, which now threatens to destroy everything she has ever held dear.
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The Forgotten Sister by Caroline Bond is a novel that centres on a teenager named Cassie and her quest to uncover her past. Adopted at a young age, Cassie discovers she was separated from her older sister, who was seven at the time and not adopted with her. Initially unaware of her sister's existence, Cassie's desire to find her birth mother is complicated by her adoptive parents' reluctance to reveal her sister's existence, opting instead to conceal it. Throughout the narrative, Cassie confides in her younger sister, Erin, highlighting the deep connections and potential bonds between siblings, reflecting on what might have been with her older sister. Eventually, Cassie locates her older sister and they begin to meet secretly, following a social media search that brought them together. However, their reunion is fraught with challenges, leading to events that ultimately expose their secret to their parents.
