ABANDONED. Thriller set in the 90s about a deaf girl who returns to her childhood home to solve a mystery about why her wayward sister is the way she is. Spoilers ahead.

[Paul]

The book starts off with the deaf girls father who has just returned from doing a vow of silence at a monastery.The deaf girl returns to the family home with a deaf child who she is looking after to find her alcoholic sister in a bad state and sleeping rough sometimes with her abusive boyfreind.The deaf girl starts to remember things from her childhood about her artist mother Magritte who paints vivid red paintings and her fathers proffessor who babysat them when they were children.She works out that the professor abused her sister.The POV of all the characters are told to a mystery person in a confessional way.It is eventually found out the professor who used to bring them cakes had set up the whole thing after her father dropped a picture of their family and the abusive proffessor thought the deaf girls sister was a near perfect replica of his own daughter who he had also abused.The book ends with the professor going back to his Scandinavian home to die poor and alone wear he talks constantly about his obsession with Norse mythology.

[Kris]

Paul, I moved your request to the Unsolved folder because you're looking for a specific book.

Deleted duplicate thread.

[Kris]

No worries. Helpful members are always around to answer any questions you might have.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

What country/region is it set in? When did you read it? Author male or female?

[Paul]

It was set in England in the 90s, I read it about 2000 and im pretty sure it was a female author. Cherrs xcx

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Paul, are you still looking for this or did you find it?

[Paul]

still looking, I found a box of yellow covered books outside Waterstones one day , i Think this is why the books wern't on shelf. But this book was amazingly written and i've obssessed over it for years .iVe tried all the online sites ,i'm actually thinking about making it into a film or play.

[Kris]

Around what year did you see this book?

Can you tell us more about the sisters - e.g., their ages, when did she become deaf, how they make a living, who are they living with, etc.?

What is the father's job? Did he stay at the monastery for a short time?

Who are the deaf child's parents? (Spoilers are okay - just give us a clear warning before revealing a spoiler.)

[Kris]

No response, moving to Abandoned folder.

Paul (OP) was last active on the site in September 2019.