From the outside, Sycamore Glen, North Carolina, might look like the perfect all-American neighbourhood. But behind the white picket fences lies a web of secrets that reach from house to house.
Up and down the streets, neighbours quietly bear the weight of their own pasts-until an accident at the community pool upsets the delicate equilibrium. And when tragic circumstances compel a woman to return to Sycamore Glen after years of self-imposed banishment, the tangle of the neighbours' intertwined lives begins to unravel.
During the course of a sweltering summer, long-buried secrets are revealed, and the neighbours learn that it's impossible to really know those closest to us. But is it impossible to love and forgive them?
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Cutter and I were there when they opened the Sycamore Glen pool for the summer. CAILEY
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(Lake Union Publishing, 1 September 2016, ebook, 290 pages, bought from @AmazonKindle, # POPSUGARReadingChallenge, a book whose title begins with the last letter of your previous read)
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This is a new author for me. This was my Amazon First Reads choice back in August 2016 but I didn't get round to reading it until now. I really enjoyed The Things We Wish Were True. I like the title, it's compelling and encourages you to pick up the book. I enjoyed the way the author depicts the secrets and darkness simmering under the surface of Sycamore Glen as everyone's dirty laundry is gradually aired in the open. I'd recommend this as a compelling read.