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London lawyer Max Rivers has it all - a burgeoning career, a beautiful girlfriend, an exclusive address - but he harbours a long-buried secret that threatens to destroy his carefully constructed world. Invisible Ink is a mesmerising novel of guilt, loss and betrayal within a family - of sibling jealousy that threatens to run out of control, a mother's life all-but forgotte
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Kindle Edition, 271 pages
Published
November 30th 2016
by Austin Macauley Publishers
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Pippa Kelly’s Invisible Ink takes the reader through the mind of Max Rivers, a young lawyer on the fast-track, who is haunted by tragedy from his childhood that he’s buried too deeply for too long. Just as his life should be coming together; new baby, proposed marriage, he is nearly reduced to mental illness from the hauntings of these events. At the same time, his mother is falling fast into dementia and he feels great guilt for his assumed avoidance and neglect of her, which is also wrapped up
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I absolutely loved reading ‘Invisible Ink’ written by Pippa Kelly. I was hooked from the first chapter when the main protagonist of the story was still a young boy.
Throughout the story she frequently refers back to the introduction of Maxi as a small boy when he is looking through his mum’s childhood encyclopaedia and the way he examines the words, breaking them down into syllables. Pippa Kelly allows the reader to get inside the heart and mind of Maxi as a child and as a man, by cleverly juxt ...more
Throughout the story she frequently refers back to the introduction of Maxi as a small boy when he is looking through his mum’s childhood encyclopaedia and the way he examines the words, breaking them down into syllables. Pippa Kelly allows the reader to get inside the heart and mind of Maxi as a child and as a man, by cleverly juxt ...more

This book oozes suppressed emotion just bubbling under the surface waiting to explode. Max is at a time when he should be embracing his future but is held back by the past and therefore unable to reach out to the present. Consequently he has a distant relationship with the mother we want him to love and doesn't quite give himself to the woman who loves him. The reasons why gradually unfold and a long unexplained mystery is solved. Really enjoyed it.
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