Pale Dawn, Dark Sunset cover

Pale Dawn, Dark Sunset

by Anne Mather

Miranda travelled to Mexico to find out if the child who was being looked after in a Catholic mission was in fact her niece, Lucy, who had been given up for dead after the air disaster in which Miranda’s sister and brother-in-law had been killed. She found that the child was in good hands – those of Juan Cueras, who had more or less adopted the child and seemed genuinely to love her. Juan was helpful, but it was his enigmatic brother Rafael to whom Miranda felt most drawn. But the two brothers seemed destined to bring her nothing but unhappiness – for would it be fair to take the child away from the person with whom she had settled so happily? While Rafael seemed to have no feelings for Miranda at all…

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?