The Truth About Her

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Th Estate
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2021
Edition: First Edition

Description: 356 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: How can you write other peoples stories, when you wont admit the truth of your own An absorbing, moving, ruefully tender, witty and wise novel of marriage, motherhood and the paths we navigate through both, for fans of Ann Patchett and Anne Tyler.Journalist and single mother Suzy Hamilton gets a phone call one summer morning, and finds out that the subject of one of her investigative exposes, 25-year-old wellness blogger Tracey Doran, has killed herself overnight. Suzy is horrified by this news but copes in the only way she knows how - through work, mothering, and carrying on with her ill-advised, tandem affairs.The consequences of her actions catch up with Suzy over the course of a sticky Sydney summer. She starts receiving anonymous vindictive letters and is pursued by Traceys mother wanting her, as a kind of rough justice, to tell Traceys story, but this time, the right way.A tender, absorbing, intelligent and moving exploration of guilt, shame, female anger, and, in particular, mothering, with all its trouble and treasure, The Truth About Her is mostly though a story about the nature of stories - who owns them, who gets to tell them, and why we need them. An entirely striking, stylish and contemporary novel, from a talented new writer.

ISBN: 9781460759165