A review by dpikkert
Truths I Never Told You by Kelly Rimmer

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Always a winner with Diane Chamberlain. Here you follow two timeframes; Beth, a new mother in 1996, and Grace, her mother, as a new mother in the 1950's. The book tackles  difficult issues such as equity for women, dementia, postpartum depression, and abortion. Beth is trying to find answers to how her mother died (when she was just a toddler) when she is cleaning the attic of her ailing father's house and finds a death certificate as well as letters/diary entries her mother had written so many years ago. The date on the death certificate doesn't seen to add up, and the information in the letters creates curiosity in Beth as she strives to be a good mother as well as grasp onto any memories of her own mother from so long ago. 

It is emotional and honest. A difficult read at times depending on your connection to the situations described. 
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