Home Truths
by Susan Lewis
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Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (January 28, 2020)
International bestselling author Susan Lewis’s riveting, unforgettable novel of a woman determined to protect her children—at all costs.
A mother’s worst nightmare becomes a reality…
Angie Watts once had what seemed like an idyllic life: a house in a small town in the English countryside with her beloved husband Steve and their three adored children. She never could have predicted how her life would one day turn out.
When her oldest son, Liam, grows from a sweet-natured boy to a troubled teen, Angie’s world begins to crumble. Expelled from school and disappearing from home for days on end, Liam falls in with a notorious local gang. After arriving home one day to find their 5-year-old son with a syringe Liam has left lying around, Steve makes a rash decision that will have lasting repercussions on their family.
Two years later, Steve is gone, Liam is missing, and with money running out, Angie and her other two children are on the brink of eviction. Then Angie is called into the police station and informed that there’s been a murder—and Liam is a suspect. As Angie’s desperation to save her family leads her to take drastic measures, her daughter secretly devises her own plan to save the family…which could put everyone in danger.
Alternating between Angie’s blissful life as a young mother and her present-day nightmare, Home Truths is a searing exploration of the lengths one mother will go to survive and protect her children.
My Rating:
Favorite Quotes:
Maybe she could talk to Ivan… but no sooner had the thought entered her head than she dismissed it… he’d just channel the vicar and start spouting passages from the Bible, as if holy words were some sort of universal panacea that held the answer to everything.
Angie started to speak, but only a sob came out. “Please don’t be kind to me… it’s making me cry and I’ve already made a big enough fool of myself.”
My Review:
This emotive, heartbreaking, and thoughtfully written book has ruined me. I was emotionally gutted and thoroughly shattered. It took four days to get through it as I was occasionally compelled to put the book down and walk away from it and do some horrible and thankless task (like house cleaning) while I contemplated and digested the insightfully written words. It was wretchedly realistic and reeked of disheartening despair and distress, and happens repeatedly, every day and everywhere. This was only my second time experiencing the intense and profound storytelling mastery of Susan Lewis, and while I am emotionally drained it was well worth the discomfort and I sense I just may be a better person going forward having done so.
About the Author
Susan Lewis is the internationally bestselling author of more than forty books across the genres of family drama, thriller, suspense, and crime. She is also the author of Just One More Day and One Day at a Time, the moving memoirs of her childhood in Bristol during the 1960s. Following periods of living in Los Angeles and the South of France, she currently lives in Gloucestershire with her husband, James; stepsons, Michael and Luke; and mischievous dogs, Coco and Lulu.
Wow this sounds like an emotional rollercoaster of a book. Great review.
Thank you for being on the tour!
Great review DJ. this looks like an interesting read
A book that is so emotional is always one I am torn between reading and not reading.. But I am adding this one to my TBR..
Gosh that does sound draining. Glad you enjoyed it. Great review.
I don’t like having emotions so I’ll give it a pass😂 Great review as always!
Sounds like this one would make me cry.
Great review my friend, this book looks and sounds like an amazing and emotional book. I am really glad you fully enjoyed reading it DJ. Thank you so much for sharing your awesome post.
I love a Susan Lewis book. You read the best ones. I am. So jealous. Now I have to try to get them from Amazon. Here I go
I really like Susan Lewis and I knew as soon as I heard about this one that I was going to really enjoy it. Thank you for being on this tour! Sara @ TLC Book Tours
Sounds kind of intense! Great review as always 😉