SOLVED. girl has hand scars from wrought iron fence like stigmata; who she thought was her mother is actually her aunt, aunt is actually her mother. [s]

[Lea]

Read this book in the mid to late 1980s. She has the scars from watching her mom leave her and she impaled her hands on the points of a wrought iron fence.

[Melissa]

Step on a crack, by Mary Anderson.

The marks are from where the mother left the little girl; a fenced cemetery. Aunt retrieves her, and raises her, but she starts having nightmares, and asks for a friend’s help to unravel her memories.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

[Lea]

Thank you so much!! That’s it - I’ve been trying to identify this book for 10 years or so!!

[Rainbowheart]

Step on a Crack for the trackable link.