Truths I Never Told You

By: Kelly Rimmer

Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Piper Goodeve, Jean Ann Douglass

“For fans who appreciate emotionally wrenching reads such as those by Sarah Jio or Kristin Hannah.” –Library Journal

“Fans of Jodi Picoult and Kristin Hannah now have a new go-to author.” —Sally Hepworth, bestselling author of The Secrets of Midwives

From the bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say, Before I Let You Go, and The Warsaw Orphan, comes a poignant post-WWII novel that explores the expectations society places on women set within an engrossing family mystery that may unravel everything once believed to be true.

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.

Don’t miss Kelly Rimmer’s newest novel, The Paris Agent, where a family’s innocent search for answers brings a long-forgotten, twenty-five-year-old mystery featuring two female SOE operatives comes to light!

For more by Kelly Rimmer, look for:

• Before I Let You Go
• The Things We Cannot Say
• The Warsaw Orphan
• The German Wife
• The Paris Agent
• The Story Keeper

wonderful book with such a strong message

narration was great. so easy to follow. I love Kelly rimmers books. wonderfully written and a strong message for all women!

Pro Abortion

While I enjoyed the story of this book, it disturbed me that the book was pro abortion. I believe life is sacred and while there were these sorts of issues in that day, I don’t believe that making abortion the answer to postpartum depression should be the lesson learned from that era. There were other solutions available for pregnancy even then. We need to learn from this that postpartum depression is not something to be ashamed of. Getting help is the best solution for everyone.

Relationships—marrying an abuser

The storyline is an important one-domestic abuse. While I’m glad I read it—-I feel it’s for younger women—those forming relationships. I’m nearing 80 and not anticipating that again.

Heart warming & insightful.

I hesitate to write reviews as I’m not articulate like some many others. This book gave me what I think is a realistic view into postpartum depression and the reality of women’s life in the 1950s. I truly loved this book!

What a story!

What a powerful read! Shows how far we’ve come to helping woman with post partum depression from the 1950’s to now, but also shows us that women’s mental health during pregnancy & after giving birth needs to be taken more seriously even today. I loved how Kelly Rimmer showed the effects it had on multiple generations of the women in the family. A real eye opener!