narrated by Henrietta Meire
Unabridged audio (10:11)
2018
348 pgs.
Adult Mystery
Finished 1/12/2021
Goodreads rating: 4.07 - 16,272 ratings
My rating: 3.5
Setting: Contemporary Yorkshire, with flashbacks to 1960s and 1980s
First line/s: 1987 "The post hits the doormat with a thud."
What I posted on Goodreads: Interesting, although predictable, multi-layered story, told in a number of voices, mostly in 2017, but with short forays to the 1960s and 1980s.
My comments: Interesting, although predictable, multi-layered story, told in a number of voices, though the protagonist is far more prolific than the rest. Cara, a 30ish single woman in Yorkshire, finds a box of postcards that makes her realize her mother never died when she was two as she's been told. Now a caretaker for her grumpy father with end-stages of Alzheimers, she embarks on a quest to find answers about her mother.
Goodreads synopsis: A secret lies buried at the heart of her family—but it can’t stay hidden forever.
When Cara stumbles across a stash of old postcards in the attic, their contents make her question everything she thought she knew.
The story she pieces together is confusing and unsettling, and appears to have been patched over with lies. But who can tell her the truth? With her father sinking into Alzheimer’s and her brother reluctant to help, it seems Cara will never find the answers to her questions. One thing is clear, though: someone knows more than they’re letting on.
Torn between loyalty to her family and dread of what she might find, Cara digs into the early years of her parents’ troubled marriage, hunting down long-lost relatives who might help unravel the mystery. But the picture that begins to emerge is not at all the one she’d expected—because as she soon discovers, lies have a habit of multiplying . . .
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