Truths I Never Told You

A moving book about the lies that may either bring a family together or break it apart, and the flaws in recollections, comes from the best-selling author of The Things We Cannot Say.

When Beth Walsh offers to help clean up the family house after her father was recently admitted to a care facility due to his deteriorating dementia, she is shocked to find that the entrance to her childhood playroom is padlocked. The hoarder's disarray of her father's paintings, piles of thrown-away paperwork, and random items in the otherwise immaculately clean house shocks her even more.

She discovers a loose diary entry in what looks to be her late mother's handwriting as she sorts through the mess. Though this note suggests something much darker, Beth and her siblings grew raised believing their mother perished in a vehicle accident when they were nothing more than babies. After some time, Beth puts together a startling picture of a postpartum depressed lady with a husband who is nothing like the devoted father Beth and her siblings know. Beth discovers that there might be more connecting her and her mother than she had previously thought, as she struggles with motherhood and has her own infant.

Kelly Rimmer examines the expectations society has of women across all eras, as well as the deep challenges that two women unknowingly face over the course of decades, all wrapped up in a captivating family mystery that has the potential to shatter everything they thought they knew.