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Description:
It’s a beautiful day for a wedding. White roses scent the air
and the summer sunlight streams in. A spoon chimes against a champagne flute
and the room falls silent. And
there he is – my husband – getting to his feet to propose a toast. He’s still handsome. His new wife is next to him, gazing upwards,
oblivious.
I’m not supposed to be here. All these years in the same town and I had no idea until I saw his name on the seating plan. He lived with me, once. Loved me. Small-town memories are long, but the people in this room don’t want to remember.
They say the healing is in letting go, but after what he did, he needs to know we haven’t gone away just because he’s shut his eyes.
So I take Daisy by the hand and step forward from the shadows. He notices us and his eyes widen. The champagne glass falls from his hand and smashes. Then he sags forward, making a terrible sound – a sort of strangled scream…
A powerfully emotional novel with a dark secret at its heart. This family drama will keep you hooked until the very last page. Perfect for fans of The Silent Wife, Kate Hewitt and Jodi Picoult.
I’m not supposed to be here. All these years in the same town and I had no idea until I saw his name on the seating plan. He lived with me, once. Loved me. Small-town memories are long, but the people in this room don’t want to remember.
They say the healing is in letting go, but after what he did, he needs to know we haven’t gone away just because he’s shut his eyes.
So I take Daisy by the hand and step forward from the shadows. He notices us and his eyes widen. The champagne glass falls from his hand and smashes. Then he sags forward, making a terrible sound – a sort of strangled scream…
A powerfully emotional novel with a dark secret at its heart. This family drama will keep you hooked until the very last page. Perfect for fans of The Silent Wife, Kate Hewitt and Jodi Picoult.
Author Ali Mercer
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Ali decided she wanted to be a writer early on and wrote her
first novel when she was at primary school. She did an English degree and spent
her early twenties working in various jobs in journalism, including as a
reporter for the show business newspaper The Stage. She started writing fiction
in earnest after getting married, moving out of London to the Oxfordshire
market town of Abingdon and starting a family. She has two children, a daughter
and a son who is autistic and was diagnosed when he was four years old.
Ali is fascinated by families, their myths and secrets, and the forces that hold them together, split them up and (sometimes) bring them back together again. She always travels with tissues and a book and has been known to cry over a good story but is also a big fan of the hopeful ending.
Ali is fascinated by families, their myths and secrets, and the forces that hold them together, split them up and (sometimes) bring them back together again. She always travels with tissues and a book and has been known to cry over a good story but is also a big fan of the hopeful ending.
His Secret Family
By Ali Mercer
Review by HeidiLynn's BookReviews
First, I want to thank Ali Mercer,
Bookouture and NetGalley for providing me with this book so I may bring you
with this review.
In His Secret Family an Absolutely
Gripping and Emotional Pageturner By Ali Mercer had more family drama than a prime-time
soap opera!! In fact, this is one book I would love to see on the big screen! I
know it would be a box office hit! This book was filled with lies, secrets,
infidelities, tragedy, shocking moments, twists and turns, family, and weddings.
So many times in this book my heart went
out to so many people for so many reasons. My heart went out to Daisy the most.
A sweet innocent girl who at a young age was different from all of the rest of the
kids in her class. She just learned differently than the others. Paula did
everything she could to find her the best care. My heart didn’t go out to her
just because she was diagnosed with Autism. It was because her Dad Mark couldn’t
handle having a disabled child as his own. He was so rude and crude to her and
Paula! Oh, that really set me off in the book!! I was yelling at my Kindle for
the conversation that went on between him and Paula! I was livid that he rather
leaves her and have a normal family with a daughter that would thrive and get
married someday. Not someone with an unknown future! I hated this man with
every bone in my body for leaving Paula and his daughter because he was not man
enough to be accepting of his Autistic Child!
Ali Mercer in my eyes is an
incredible storyteller! At the very beginning of the book we see a woman and a
girl watching a wedding from the outside. From the inside you see a man getting
married but glimpses over to the window and is shocked. This instantly hooks
you and you don’t find out til the end how this all fits into to place! It all
comes full circle and you will be shocked at the ending of the book. Many
things I didn’t see coming. Many of them I was plenty surprised.
