Truths I Never Told You
"For fans who appreciate emotionally wrenching reads such as those by Sarah Jio or Kristin Hannah." -Library Journal
"Fans of Jodi Picoult and Kristin Hannah now have a new go-to author." --Sally Hepworth, bestselling author of The Secrets of Midwives
From the bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say, Before I Let You Go, and The Warsaw Orphan, comes a poignant post-WWII novel that explores the expectations society places on women set within an engrossing family mystery that may unravel everything once believed to be true.
With her father recently moved to a care facility, Beth Walsh volunteers to clear out the family home and is surprised to discover the door to her childhood playroom padlocked. She's even more shocked at what's behind it--a hoarder's mess of her father's paintings, mounds of discarded papers and miscellaneous junk in the otherwise fastidiously tidy house.
As she picks through the clutter, she finds a loose journal entry in what appears to be her late mother's handwriting. Beth and her siblings grew up believing their mother died in a car accident when they were little more than toddlers, but this note suggests something much darker.
Beth soon pieces together a disturbing portrait of a woman suffering from postpartum depression and a husband who bears little resemblance to the loving father Beth and her siblings know. With a newborn of her own and struggling with motherhood, Beth finds there may be more tying her and her mother together than she ever suspected.
Don't miss Kelly Rimmer's newest novel, The Paris Agent, where a family's innocent search for answers brings a long-forgotten, twenty-five-year-old mystery featuring two female SOE operatives comes to light!
For more by Kelly Rimmer, look for:
"Fans of Jodi Picoult and Kristin Hannah now have a new go-to author." --Sally Hepworth, bestselling author of The Secrets of Midwives
From the bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say, Before I Let You Go, and The Warsaw Orphan, comes a poignant post-WWII novel that explores the expectations society places on women set within an engrossing family mystery that may unravel everything once believed to be true.
With her father recently moved to a care facility, Beth Walsh volunteers to clear out the family home and is surprised to discover the door to her childhood playroom padlocked. She's even more shocked at what's behind it--a hoarder's mess of her father's paintings, mounds of discarded papers and miscellaneous junk in the otherwise fastidiously tidy house.
As she picks through the clutter, she finds a loose journal entry in what appears to be her late mother's handwriting. Beth and her siblings grew up believing their mother died in a car accident when they were little more than toddlers, but this note suggests something much darker.
Beth soon pieces together a disturbing portrait of a woman suffering from postpartum depression and a husband who bears little resemblance to the loving father Beth and her siblings know. With a newborn of her own and struggling with motherhood, Beth finds there may be more tying her and her mother together than she ever suspected.
Don't miss Kelly Rimmer's newest novel, The Paris Agent, where a family's innocent search for answers brings a long-forgotten, twenty-five-year-old mystery featuring two female SOE operatives comes to light!
For more by Kelly Rimmer, look for:
- Before I Let You Go
- The Things We Cannot Say
- The Warsaw Orphan
- The German Wife
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Community Reviews
I read another book by Kelly Rimmer earlier this year, All The Things We Cannot Say, and loved it. This is almost as good. Rimmer is an excellent storyteller. This is the story of the Walsh siblings preparing for the imminent death of the aging father, Patrick. He is suffering from dementia and heart failure and has just moved into a care facility. Beth, the youngest sibling, is cleaning out his house when she comes across some papers in the attic. They appear to be written by their mother who died in a car accident when the children were very young. But the dates don't match up. Beth has some memories of her mother reading to her, snuggling with her at bedtime. Beth, who is struggling with her own newborn baby and motherhood tries to piece together what really happened to her mother all those years ago.
The story is told in alternating time frames, present day Beth and her mother Grace in the mid 50's. I enjoyed the story of Grace and Patrick more. Beth and her siblings know a very different dad than the Patrick from the past. I enjoyed reading how Grace and Patrick's story developed. There were twists I never saw coming. Both stories tie together at the end but it's not necessarily the happy ending you might expect. Postpartum depression, gender roles and the feminist movement are explored in the book.
The story is told in alternating time frames, present day Beth and her mother Grace in the mid 50's. I enjoyed the story of Grace and Patrick more. Beth and her siblings know a very different dad than the Patrick from the past. I enjoyed reading how Grace and Patrick's story developed. There were twists I never saw coming. Both stories tie together at the end but it's not necessarily the happy ending you might expect. Postpartum depression, gender roles and the feminist movement are explored in the book.
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