Necessary Lies By Diane Chamberlain Conversation Starters

Necessary Lies: By Diane Chamberlain | Conversation Starters 

  

 

At fifteen, Ivy is responsible: responsible for everyone, that is - her elderly grandmother, mentally challenged sister, beautiful young nephew and herself. After the death of her parents Ivy is doing the best she can to keep her family together. She longs to attend college and marry the boy of her dreams, however, until the arrival of the family’s new social worker, Ivy was convinced that not only was her fate predetermined it was unavoidable. Jane is a fresh faced, upper class newly married optimistic social worker who becomes embroiled in Ivy’s family much to the disconcert of her husband and co-workers. Will she be able to make a difference in the lives of the Hartis family? Or is Ivy’s fate, as she believes, already set in stone?

Necessary Lies is a fictional novel set in rural Grace county, North Carolina. Although the novel itself is fictional the theme in which the plot is based is horrifyingly true.

Diane Chamberlin is the author of over 24 best-selling novels in over 20 different languages. Chamberlin’s background in psychology allows her to spins heartwarming novels about family and friends with a twist of drama and suspense. In Necessary Lies she writes of tragedy courage compassion and forgiveness all while leaving the reading turning pages at a heart breaking fast pace

 

A Brief Look Inside: 

It is 1960 in North Carolina and the lives of Ivy Hart and Jane Forrester couldn't be more different. Fifteen-year-old Ivy lives with her family as tenants on a small tobacco farm, but when her parents die, Ivy is left to care for her grandmother, older sister, and nephew. As she struggles with her grandmother's aging, her sister's mental illness, and her own epilepsy, she realizes they might need more than she can give.

When Jane Forrester takes a position as Grace County's newest social worker, she is given the task of recommending which of her clients should be sterilized without their knowledge or consent. The state's rationalization is that if her clients are poor, or ill, or deemed in some way "unfit" they should not be allowed to have children. But soon Jane becomes emotionally invested in her clients' lives, causing tension with her new husband and her supervisors. No one understands why Jane would want to become a caseworker for the Department of Public Health when she could be a housewife and Junior League member. As Jane is drawn in by the Hart women, she begins to discover the secrets of the small farm―secrets much darker than she would have guessed. Soon, she must decide whether to take drastic action to help them, or risk losing a life-changing battle.


Necessary Lies is the story of these two young women, seemingly worlds apart, but both haunted by tragedy. Jane and Ivy are thrown together and must ask themselves: How can you know what you believe is right, when everyone is telling you it's wrong?

 

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