Maryann Neale

The Pearls in the Piano Maryann Neale

"Being a caregiver to someone with dementia is not a job you can easily describe. It is parenting for someone who isn't cute and cuddly. It is hard. Had I not had the support of so many, had I not moved that piano and uncovered chapters of her life I never knew about, I don't know where we would be, she and I. But I did move that piano. And both she and I were given a gift of being able to change how the rest of her life plays out." When Emma's mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer's and comes to live with her, Emma thinks her life is over. In the process of moving, Emma finds a mysterious velvet pouch in her mother's old piano which leads her on a desperate race against time to solve the mystery before her mother slips away.