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The Truth in a Lie is Jan Turk Petrie's sixth novel and the first in a contemporary setting. It is an engaging story of complex interpersonal relationships..husbands and wives, mothers and daughters, brothers and sisters; a story of love and loss, expertly told with sensitivity and real emotional depth.
The reader follows Charlotte, Lottie, through a particularly difficult time in her life. After divorcing Duncan, we join the story when she leaves her partner, Michael, and has to adjust to being alone again, though sometimes with the company of Kate, her university student daughter. Her life is rocked again when her mother is taken seriously ill and has to undergo emergency surgery. The reappearance of Duncan at the hospital and her mother's insistence that her private papers will be destroyed unread, set the scene for an unexpected outcome, clearly demonstrating the devastating consequences that secrecy can have.
The novel is very well-written with fully developed characterisations and evocative accounts, so much so that the reader feels that they know the people, places and feelings described. Indeed, the strength of the writing is that most people will have experienced something very similar and will be able to identify completely. A highly recommended read.
Drena Irish, A LoveReading Ambassador
Secrets and lies can be so destructive – especially when you lie to yourself.
Charlotte Preece, a successful 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.
Closing date: 04/03/2021
ISBN: 9781912855940
Publication date: 16/06/2020
Publisher: Pintail Press
Format: Paperback
| ISBN: | 9781912855940 |
| Publication date: | 16th June 2020 |
| Author: | Jan Turk Petrie |
| Publisher: | Pintail Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 260 pages |
| Genres: | Family Drama, Indie Books We Love, |
| Categories: | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), |
As a writer, Jan Turk Petrie is always keen to challenge herself and come up with something original. Her first published novels – the three volumes that make up The Eldísvík Trilogy – are Nordic noir thrillers set some fifty years in the future. Her fourth novel - ‘Too Many Heroes’ – is, by contrast, a period romantic thriller set in the early 1950s. Jan’s fifth novel - ‘Towards the Vanishing Point’ is a work of historical literary fiction. Before becoming a writer, Jan was an ...
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