Hope is a Gentle Flicker
What if the bravest thing a parent can do is just keep loving?
What happens when your child is taught to hate you?
When Sienna falls in love, she embraces her partner’s young daughters, Adele and Nina, with an open heart. But her dream of a happy, blended family is fragile from the start. Unseen by them, a rift is being slowly, methodically carved. As the girls they love turn against them, Sienna and her husband face an impossible choice:
hold on – or let go?
Told from the stepmother's unique and often unheard point of view, this memoir is a heart-wrenching account of an unrecognised grief: mourning living children. It chronicles the agony of loving two daughters who are within reach, yet made untouchable by a force that is stealing them from within.
But Hope Is A Gentle Flicker is not merely a story of loss. It is an act of resistance. It is a tribute to a love that refuses to be extinguished even in the face of rejection, and a beacon for anyone who has endured the pain of parental alienation - one that offers validation, understanding and the defiant courage to hope again.
Hope Is A Gentle Flicker launches 9 April 2026.
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"Healing
begins when
we share
our
truth."
The day I get to share this story with you feels closer than ever.
As a little taste of what's to come, I'm very excited to share an exclusive excerpt
from my book: Chapter 1.
Here, alone with my thoughts, I consider the many shapes a family can take, each one bringing its unique consequences. But my mind always narrows to one specific point: my own. It always leads back to the moment this entire journey began.
" When parents pull in different directions,
a child's heart is the one that breaks."
Hope Is A Gentle Flicker
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