SOLVED. YA Fantasy I think: the main character is trying to visit where they think their mother is burried, but it turns out to be a hospital and she's alive. The mother paints pictures and there are some of the main character. [s]

[Laura]

[Laura]

I think that the Mc dad told her (and everyone else) that her mother was dead so he could move on to someone else, but he had stuck her in a hospital in the countryside.

[Daisy]

Laura, can you tell us more about the fantasy element?

[Rainbowheart]

When did you read it?

[Becca]

A long shot guess - The Kneebone Boy by Ellen Potter?

[Laura]

I thought that I read it last year, but I've looked at the titles of all of the books I've read within the last year and nothing seems to fit. I honestly can't remember anything else about it except that one part. I'm starting to doubt that it even exists, and that maybe it was in a movie or TV show or even a dream lol

[Rainbowheart]

Was the girl a teenager or a younger child?

[Laura]

a teenager, and I believe that she went there (to visit the grave) with the love interest of the book. I think that her father was a pretty important person, like a lord or king. the mother had gotten sick or was injured or something and wasn't mentally sound. The father didn't want to deal with it so he told everyone she had died and stuck her in the hospital. because of her mental state she couldn't remember stuff, but the Mc recognized herself as a child in the paintings her mother did. She pretended to have been sent by father to check in, without telling the hospital staff that she was his daughter. I believe that because of whatever else was happening in the book, the Mc had to leave her mother there for the time being.

[Kelleen]

Laura wrote: "a teenager, and I believe that she went there (to visit the grave) with the love interest of the book. I think that her father was a pretty important person, like a lord or king. the mother had got..."
How long ago did you read this? And any idea if it was recently published or an old book?

[Laura]

I thought I read it last year, but I'm not sure. I would think that it's a more recently published book, I would say within the last 5 years, but I'm not sure.

[Rainbowheart]

Laura, did you rule out Becca's suggestion in message 5?

[Laura]

yes sorry, that's not it

[Eloise]

M/M pairing but that sounds like Crooked Kingdom

As per Wylan's Grishaverse Wiki Page
(view spoiler)["Later, in return, Jesper agrees to go with Wylan to visit his mother's grave at Saint Hilde. However, upon reaching Saint Hilde, they discover that Wylan's mother was not dead at all, but locked in an asylum by Jan Van Eck due to the fact that she had birthed a child that could not read. Wylan cannot reveal himself to her as her own son, but he talks to her and finds out that she is suffering. On the way back, Wylan begins to cry and Jesper comforts him" (hide spoiler)]

[Laura]

that must be it! I did read it last year, and I think I must have been combining it with another book! thanks so much!