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In Susan Lewis’s new novel, HOME TRUTHS (WilliamMorrow), 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.
I hadn’t read Susan Lewis before but I found myself enjoying HOME TRUTHS immensely. She has a gentle way of writing about families, that not only is lyrical, but you feel the emotional tension. I look forward to looking up some of her backlist.
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About Susan Lewis
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.
Find out more at her website, and connect with her on Facebook.
Thanks to TLC Book Tours we have one copy to giveaway. Just tell us the most interesting novel you’ve read about families. We’ll announce a winner. Good luck.
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Wow! So many!! I’m going to go way back in time and say The Thornbirds! That was so good!
This looks very good!
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The Favorite Daughter by Patti Callahan Henry
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Little Women
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This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
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Beartown and Us Against You
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
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Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum but there are so many!
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One For The Blackbird, One For The Crow! Two families that had to come together to survive the winter. Thank you for the opportunity to read!
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Educated by Tara Westover. A complicated story about a disfunctional family involving mental illness and survival.
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Little Fires Everywhere
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The Safe Room by Barbara Shapiro
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Oysterville Sewing Circle and Little Women.
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The family In The Great Alone was very interesting interesting to me.
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The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin
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I need this book in my life!!! AH! It sounds so good, AND I am a huge Susan Lewis fan. OK, so one of the most interesting books about families… I think I have a three way tie. I can’t help it. Up From the Blue by Susan Henderson, Sea Creatures by Susanna Daniel, and Televenge by Pamela King Cable. All three books hit me hard in different ways and those are always in my top ten lists of books I recommend. Thank you for being on this tour! Sara @ TLC Book Tours
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Recently enjoyed The Dutch House by Ann Patchett.
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Lately, it’s been The New Husband. Actually, a thriller but based on family dynamics too.
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The Joy Luck Club
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Never Have I Ever was an outstanding suspense filled thriller read for me when one woman bent on deranged revenge is determined to destroy another mother’s life and family. Scared out of her wits, the mother goes to great depths to save her family.
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I really love bed the history and craziness of Cape May, Lies was a good psychological thriller involving a small family. Saving Meghan was another good one. Also, any of the Silver Springs small town families are so enjoyable.
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The Great Alone
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Pride and Prejudice. While it’s a study of manners and a romance, it also delves into at least five families and their strengths and weaknesses: the Bennets, of course, the Darcys, the Bingleys, the Lucases, and the de Bourghs. It’s remarkable how much information Jane Austen packed into that book concerning the various families she created. You don’t realize it while you read, but if you sit back and think on it, we get to know so much about all of these families. Thank you for the chance.
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Anne of Green Gables is my favorite family story.
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The one I just finished, You Don’t Want to Know.
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The Nest comes to mind. Adriana Trigiani Books. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane.
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Little Women
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Little Women
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A Summer of New Beginnings by Bette Lee Crosby
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I reading Home Again by Kristin Hannah. So good
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The Peacock Summer by Hannah Richell was captivating.
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Flowers in the attic was interesting to say the least!!!
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Christmas at Rachel’s Pudding Pantry by Caroline Roberts
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The most recent one that really impacted me was If Only I Could Tell You by Hannah Beckerman. It really shows how secrets kept for too long can negatively impact family relationships, how easily misunderstandings lead to unjustified anger, and how difficult it is to forgive based on incorrect beliefs about a loved one’s actions.
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The Thornbirds
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Flowers in the Attic
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Oh there are so many! One of my all time favorites is Flowers in the Attic.
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