This story is so sad. I have watched the documentary about Kirsty and my heart goes out to her family. Such a beautiful troubled girl. I did not realise that her sister had also died.

Wow .....
This is a truly heartbreaking story of a mother who lost two of her beautiful daughters so very tragically, kirsty murdered by her violent husband and Hayley unable to deal with the loss of her sister turned to alcohol and unfortunately died.
To put all her heartbreak ,sadness and loss into words and put them into a book is so remarkably courageous.
I hope this book inspires people all over ...especially women/men in violent relationships to get out of them and also that alcohol doesn’t solve anything for you it only hurts you more.
I wish this book every success in the world and I’m very privileged to have been chosen to read it .
Thankyou and good luck
RIP Kirsty and Hayley x

A heartbreaking tale about a mother who has lost not just one daughter but two. This book is written in a really honest and open way and you can feel the hurt and pain this family have gone through but you can also feel her strength and courage to carry on even after the most horrible events occur in your life. Hold your loved ones close.

This book was very special it was about her daughter that got killed by her husband .
Then after that another daughter died after her sister died .
It was a good read .
Thank you Netgalley for your ASAP

Thank you Net Gallery, Thistle Publishing and David Haviland for allowing me to review Through A Mother's Tears by Cathy Broomfield.

A heartbreaking story of a Mother who not only lost one daughter to domestic abuse but another to health issues. I felt so bad for Cathy for the agonizing pain of what she surely was going through and how in the end she found closure but no mother should have to go through this. I could feel the tears running down my face. The way Cathy wrote this book about her two daughters Kirsty and Hayley you could feel every emotion. Cathy also knew something wasn't right when Kirsty first met her finacee. Moms just know this. It's a shame her fears were ignored. Hayley couldn't cope with life without her sister and fell into heavy drinking. Young lives cut short for no reason. It's lovely to know that Cathy has a 3rd daughter Sonya and grandchildren. Thank you Cathy for sharing this story with readers. It had to be heartbreaking to relive it all to share this. Hopefully it brings positivity to another person.

Cherie'

This is a very sad story and I can't imagine the sense of loss the author must feel. The author writes from experience and the anguish and anger she feels are evident.

Absolutely heart breaking. Unbelievable to think that one woman has endured so much heartache and sorrow. This book will stay with me for a long long time.
Thank you to Netgalley and the author for the ARC.

Thank you to Thistle Publishing for providing me with a digital copy for review.

I basically sobbed for quite a while after finishing this tragic true story. The last paragraph is going to stay with me for a long time.

This book is upsetting emotionally because it is full of heartbreak, despair, grief and sadness. You only need to read the blurb to know how upsetting the book will be. It is tragic all-round. The story is told with unflinching honesty by Cathy Broomfield. Her writing is a punch to the heart and you can feel the grief come off the pages effortlessly.

This is an important story to be heard. You will probably read this in one sitting and then cry afterwards at how awful the world can be. For me, this book emphasised the reason I read; because the grief that Broomfield experiences is the grief of many in the world in similar situations.

By openly sharing her grief, I hope that readers can reflect on their own lives and most of all learn the importance of empathy.

Very sad and emotional book. Its about a Family who looses the first daughter when she marries a man who beats her to death. Then he pretends she just ran off on him. She is found in a terrible way. Her sister who she was very close to just could not cope with the loss and overdoses.
This whole family could be helped with some therapy

Broomfield's story is absolutely depressing. She came from a broken home, had three relationships herself, and experienced the murder of her youngest child and watched the middle daughter self destruct. The author states at the end that she just exists in the world, she's basically waiting to die. In fact she overdosed after the murder of her daughter, but her attempt was foiled. The story is blunt and abrupt.

This was a very quick read...a heartfelt story written by a mother who lost two beautiful children!
As a mother myself her pain is unimaginable! I pray she finds some way to learn to live through this tragedy for her surviving daughter and grandchildren.

Such a sad recollection from a brave mother. I commend the bravery and strength of this family. A book I read in one sitting.

Thanks to Netgalley for my copy.

This is a gut wrenching brutally honest account of a family torn apart by the murder of one daughter and the death of a second one. Cathy Broomfield is a brave loving mother and I have the utmost respect for her and her family.

This is a story that has to be told but should never actually have to be told.

What a heartbreaking read.

To lose one child is bad enough, but to lose that child to such a vicious brutal murder, I don't know how Cathy got through that ordeal. And then, just a couple of years later to lose another child to alcohol abuse caused by heartache, just does not bare thinking about.
Such an emotional read but one I feel needed to be told.
Cathy, you say you are weak but in my eyes you are one of the strongest women I have ever read about. You keep going, and let the world know just how unkind it can be and make young girls aware of the dangers out there.

A heartbreaking honest novel of loss and grief.
Well written with enough detail to help the reader understand the chronoligical order of events, and the ripple of effect amongst family members.
The sadness felt can not be imagined. The hope of reunion ends the writing, and I pray gives reassurance day to day to Cathy Bbroomfield, and others touched by this, and other tragedies....

Through A Mother's Tears by Cathy Broomfield

This was a true story written bravely by Cathy Broomfield who is from Southern Wales. If I could not read anything so sad again, I would be quite content. With straight forward language Cathy tells us the story how she lost two daughter's, each death was very tragic and senseless. This book haunted me and left me feeling quite depressed all day after reading it in one sitting. Beautiful Kirsty went missing and the worry I felt while reading this was quite palpable.

Cathy's other daughter literally died from a broken heart from the grief she felt from losing her sister. In the next few years after Kirsty's murder, Haley begins to drown her sorrows in the bottle. Haley literally drank herself too death. How this mother who is so grief stricken finds the courage to share her story is extremely brave. Cathy and her husband Dave have only one daughter named Sonya and Sonya's children.

Brutal, unflinching honesty, massage parlors, murder, alcoholism are all part of this heartbreaking story. It is not in any way an inspirational read and I would caution people that this story is very bleak. Sometimes reading a sad true story leaves you feeling devastated for the pain this family endured. Sometimes it can make us feel that our own problems are not so bad.

Thank you to Net Galley, Cathy Broomfield and Thistle Publishing for granting me my ARC for a fair and honest review.