Secrets and lies can be so destructive - especially when you lie to yourself
Charlotte Preece, a writer, moves to a riverside apartment after breaking up with her lover. She feels guilty when the upheaval so disturbs her student daughter, Kate, that she fails her first-year exams. Charlotte is then called to the bedside of her ailing mother and has to drive through heavy snow to reach the hospital. She's astonished when Duncan, her ex-husband, braves the treacherous conditions to join her. Is he being supportive, or does he have other motives? And then the two of them are snowed in together...
'The Truth in a Lie' explores the complex relationships between mothers and daughters, wives and husbands. It is a story of love, loyalty, betrayal and the damage done by untold secrets.
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Today it hits me. A BEGINNING OF SORTS - LONDON, AUGUST 2018
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(Pintail Press, 17 June 2020, 260 pages, ebook, copy from the publisher and voluntarily reviewed, #BlogTour 31 July via @RandomTTours)
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I'd never heard of the author so I had no idea what to expect. I thought this was a fantastic book so another author has been added to my TBR list. I loved the premise of the book; I'm a sucker for secrets and lies within a family. The book sounded right up my street. It was. The book felt very real as I was reading it and the author does a great job of bringing the characters, setting and events that bind them to life. Charlotte is a very complex character and I loved how she develops across the book. I love the way the book explores the bond that still exists between Charlotte and her ex-husband and the bond between Charlotte and her mother and Charlotte and her daughter. I didn't want to stop reading when I started and I was pulled right into the book.
