PROLOGUE
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A woman in her fifties was sitting on an armchair with her head leaning on the headrest and her eyes shut. A four-year-old girl came running to the room with a trophy in her hand.
"Granny, Granny look I won a trophy", she told with an enthusiasm in her voice.
But her grandmother, Sophie, didn't reply. The girl thought she might have fallen asleep, so she went beside her and shook her gently. But, the women's head fell from the headrest and her hands were icy cold.
The girl got frightened and ran downstairs to the living room and found her mom, sitting on the sofa and reading magazines.
"Mumma--Mumma----something has happened to grandma", She told panting heavily.
"Selina, what are you saying baby?", Asked her mother concernedly. Selina held her mother's hand and led her upstairs, to grandma's room.
Selina's mom, Zeenia was shocked to see her mother sitting on the armchair with her head fallen from the headrest and motionless. She ran towards her mom and tapped her cheeks gently.
"Mom, please open your eyes."
Listening to Zeenia's screams, her husband Alexander came running to the room and saw the entire scenario. He checked whether his mother-in-law was breathing.
"She---she is dead", He told with tears in his eyes.
Zeenia kept her head on her mother's lap and cried bitterly, while Alexander tried to console her.
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Suddenly, Zeenia spotted a diary kept on the table. She took the diary in her hand and sat on the bed.
It was a brown handmade leather diary and " SOPHIE'S DIARY", was written on the cover.
The diary contains secrets, mysteries that Sophie has never revealed to anyone.
Do read to know the secrets that get unfolded as the story progresses.
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