Book Synopsis:
For fans of Harriet Evans, Lucinda Riley and Rowan Coleman. The Truth About My Mother is a sweeping family drama about secrets, sacrifice and love, spanning from the 1950s to present day.
All families have secrets, don’t they?
89-year-old Jeannette never meant to keep the truth from her family. But when a near fatal fall sends her to live with her granddaughter Amy, she finds herself revisiting a past that’s been hidden for too many years.
Amy, however, has always been good at keeping secrets. When ex-partner Nick shows up, she’s forced to admit that some things just can’t stay hidden forever.
Judith is starting from scratch – again. The master of reinvention, Amy’s mother has been seeking happiness in all the wrong places. This time though, she might just find it a lot closer to home than she ever believed she would…
As Jeannette’s 90th birthday party approaches, all three women discover they have more in common than they first thought, and the secrets from the past may be the key to unlocking the future.
Three women. Three generations. One legacy they all share…
The Truth About My Mother is published in ebook and paperback on the 20th February 2020. You can purchase your copy using the link below.
My Review:
I always enjoy discovering new authors, especially if they have a bit of a back catalogue, so I was very pleased to be offered a spot on the blog tour for The Truth About My Mother. I thought this was an entertaining and absorbing read which reads a little like a saga.
This book features some fantastic female characters who I enjoyed getting to know throughout the book. They all have different issues to deal with and I found it interesting to follow them to see how they would deal with them. Jeanette’s story was my favourite as though it is a common storyline I felt it was dealt with differently to other books and I liked being able to see it from a different angle. Amy annoyed me a little as, though I did feel sorry for her, I wondered if a mum would really react the way she did. I wished I knew her personally as I’d have liked to be able to give her a stern talking to.
The pace of this book is a bit slower than I’m used to but I actually found I didn’t mind as I was so wrapped up in the characters lives. The author cleverly includes some of the more everyday aspects of the characters lives which made the story seem more realistic. The ending was very explosive with lots happening in quite quickly which I didn’t expect. Everything wasn’t neatly tied up either, with a few lose ends remaining which I’m hopeful means there’s a sequel in the works!
Huge thanks to Alainna from Orion for inviting me onto the blog tour and for my copy of this book via Netgalley.
About The Author:
Jemma Wallace is a writer from Edinburgh, where she also works part-time as a project manager for the University of Edinburgh. She has one son, Archie, and the novel was inspired partly by her own experience of single parenthood and her grandmothers experience of being a single mother in the 1950s. The Truth About My Mother is Jemma’s debut novel, for which she won the Trapeze and Gingerbread ‘One in Four’ writing competition.
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I love a good female character and fingers crossed you get that sequel 🙂 Great review.
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