Truths I Never Told You

By Kelly Rimmer

Truths I Never Told You - Kelly Rimmer
  • Release Date: 2020-04-14
  • Genre: Historical Fiction
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 348 Ratings

Description

“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: Before I Let You Go The Things We Cannot Say The Warsaw Orphan The German Wife

Reviews

  • Families are complicated

    5
    By Colette Laurent
    A great story about a family struggles and what life was for women (and men) in the 1950s. About mental illness then and now. Thank you to the brave women pioneers who helped change so much
  • Not her best vook

    2
    By Rboggs128
    It was okay. I loved a couple of her other books. This one seemed like an advertisement for a feminist group and for planned parenthood. It was over the top.
  • Truths I never Told

    4
    By fpp221
    Excellent story and characters!