Mark Twain wrote: Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of after life, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school, and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed-because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of that canonized epoch and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

Truths I Never Told You
by Kelly Rimmer

Category:  Mystery

Average Rating:  4.0

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.

Jeff

[2024-11-25 14:26:49]

Rating:  4

This is a tragic, moving story with a happy, satisfying ending. It's as much a human relations story as it is a mystery. The characters are well developed and believable. Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Piper Goodeve and Jean Ann Douglass all deliver quite acceptable performances. This is a well written, character-driven, family oriented story with no explicit violence. I recommend it to anyone, but especially women.