Truths I Never Told You
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4.7 • 20 Ratings
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- $7.99
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Publisher Description
It begins with the discovery of a tattered letter in the attic ... A heart-tugging story of family secrets by the Top 10 bestselling Australian author
1959: Grace is a young mother with four children under four. All she ever wanted was to have a family of her own, but there are thoughts Grace cannot share with anyone in the months after childbirth. Instead she pours her deepest fears into the pages of a notebook, hiding them where she knows husband Patrick will never look. When Grace falls pregnant again, she turns to her sister, Maryanne, for help.
1996: When Beth's father, Patrick, is diagnosed with dementia, she and her siblings make the heart-wrenching decision to put him into care. As Beth is clearing the family home, she discovers a series of notes. Patrick's children grew up believing their mother died in a car accident, but these notes suggest something much darker may be true.
TRUTHS I NEVER TOLD YOU is the unputdownable, unforgettable story of motherhood and marriage by Kelly Rimmer, author of BEFORE I LET YOU GO and THE THINGS WE CANNOT SAY
'Rimmer's suspenseful narrative will enthrall and move readers' Publishers Weekly
'Fans of Jodi Picoult now have a new go-to author' SALLY HEPWORTH
'Kelly Rimmer tears at the heartstrings' Herald Sun
'An all-consuming read' New Idea
'Expertly illustrates a heartbreaking portrayal of postpartum depression. For fans who appreciate emotionally wrenching reads' Library Journal
'Everything Kelly Rimmer writes turns to gold' SheReads
**Contains BONUS extract from Kelly Rimmer's latest emotionally compelling novel, The Paris Agent**
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Postpartum depression impacts two generations of women in Rimmer's illuminating tale of a family's unspoken troubles (after The Things We Cannot Say). After taking fertility drugs for six years during the 1990s, child psychologist Beth Walsh feels that having Noah, now five months old, was a mistake, and fears she might purposefully harm him, thoughts she keeps to herself and finds especially disturbing. Beth welcomes the distraction of helping her three older siblings clean out the family home in Seattle as their father, Patrick, enters hospice care with dementia. In the attic, she finds journal entries from her late mother, Grace. Written in the 1950s, they leave an unsettling image of the seemingly perfect Patrick, describing his unhappiness and heavy drinking. As the siblings pick up on Beth's depression and rally to get her help, their support contrasts with Patrick's dismissive response to Grace's "baby blues," as evidenced in the journal entries. In Patrick's dementia, he mistakes Beth for Maryanne, Grace's sister, and tries to apologize for past wrongs, leading Beth to clues about her parents' gloom. With a mix of engrossing mystery and deep feeling, Rimmer offers a harrowing account of a doomed mother's experience in the '50s and a family grappling with the truth. Rimmer's suspenseful narrative will enthrall and move readers.
