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His life was destroyed by a lie.
Her life will be ruined by the truth.
Joely tells other people’s secrets for a living. As a ghost writer, she’s used to scandal – but this just might be her strangest assignment yet.
Freda has never told her story to anyone before. But now she’s ready to set the record straight and to right a wrong that’s haunted her for forty years.
Freda’s memoir begins with a 15-year-old girl falling madly in love with her teacher. It ends in a way Joely could never possibly have imagined.
As the story unravels, Joely is spun deeper into a world of secrets and lies. Delving further into Freda’s past, Joely’s sure she can uncover the truth… But does she want to?
Joely tells other people’s secrets for a living. As a ghost writer, she’s used to scandal – but this just might be her strangest assignment yet.
Freda has never told her story to anyone before. But now she’s ready to set the record straight and to right a wrong that’s haunted her for forty years.
Freda’s memoir begins with a 15-year-old girl falling madly in love with her teacher. It ends in a way Joely could never possibly have imagined.
As the story unravels, Joely is spun deeper into a world of secrets and lies. Delving further into Freda’s past, Joely’s sure she can uncover the truth… But does she want to?
Review
The book begins with a flashback to a 15 year old girl at school, who along with all the girls at her school, has a crush on the music teacher.
The next part of the book introduces Joely who is a ghostwriter. She has just found out her husband is leaving her for her best friend. When a job comes up to write a memoir for Freda based at her home in Devon, it seems like the perfect escape from her unravelling life in London.
What happens next is we find out the beginning of the book is part of the memoir that Joely has been asked to ghostwrite. Freda is a little strange and has a cook reminiscent of a character from Marnie and the whole thing turns into a page turner with some spooky goings on.
At the centre of this book is the affair between the music teacher and a fifteen year old girl. You may not find that part of the book a comfortable read. As the book progresses we find out more about the lies different characters in the book have told and the repercussions of those lies.
One of the more light hearted characters in the book is Joely's daughter Holly, who is a breath of fresh air. After trying to second guess where the book was going and work out who told what lies she was a bit of a tonic.
Personally I thought the book could have ended slightly sooner than it did, with the last part of the book wrapping everything up a little too neatly for me; but maybe leaving the possibility of a sequel on the table?
I'm giving this book 4 out of 5 stars. My thanks to Pigeonhole for the daily staves and the chance to join the author and comment.
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