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If Only I Could Tell You
A TWIST THAT WILL BREAK YOUR HEART . . . AN ENDING THAT WILL PUT IT BACK TOGETHER AGAIN.
‘I loved it’ Jojo Moyes
‘Compelling and moving . . . it made me cry’ Marian Keyes
*****
Audrey’s family has fallen apart. Her two grown-up daughters, Jess and Lily, are estranged, and her two teenage granddaughters have never been allowed to meet. A secret that echoes back thirty years has splintered the family in two, but is also the one thing keeping them connected.
As tensions reach breaking point, the irrevocable choice that one of them made all those years ago is about to surface. After years of secrets and silence, how can one broken family find their way back to each other?
*****
Your favourite authors are all being swept away by If Only I Could Tell You:
‘Had me totally gripped. Highly recommended’ Sara Cox, author of Till the Cows Come Home
‘Heartbreaking and uplifting’ Ruth Jones, author of Never Greener
‘Utterly compelling and completely heart-breaking. I couldn’t put it down’ Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost Things
‘A tender portrait of family lives, losses and secrets’ Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go
‘Emotionally engaging, clever & wonderfully satisfying’ Kate Mosse, author of The Burning Chambers
‘If Only I Could Tell You breaks your heart, but with an incredible skill and elegance… I loved it to bits’ Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble With Goats and Sheep
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Reviews
Hot reads: If Only I Could Tell You really tugs the heartstrings
A compelling yet tender tale
Tense, moving and tender
A tender story
A powerful novel about grief, guilt and...secrets
A tender and heartbreaking second novel
Emotionally-charged and superbly crafted . . . For all its emotional intensity and heartbreaking themes, Beckerman's compelling, compassionate novel delivers ultimately life-affirming and uplifting messages with eloquence, elegance and an acute understanding of the delicate but unbreakable bonds of family
A beautiful tale... Heartbreaking and uplifting
A tender portrait of family lives, losses and secrets
A tender, moving portrait of three women's lives... If Only I Could Tell You broke my heart
An intricately tender novel about secrets and silence
I pure loved it! Compelling and deeply moving
Engaging, clever, and wonderfully satisfying . . . storytelling at its finest
Utterly compelling and completely heart-breaking
Wonderful . . . I loved it to bits
Totally engrossing, achingly sad and so perceptive
[An] incredibly moving, poignant book...It will have you in floods of tears
Profoundly beautiful and heartbreaking in turn
Utterly heartbreaking and beautifully written
A wise and tender tale of a family divided...compelling from the first page to the last
Lyrical and deeply emotional
I loved it
A brave depiction of a family torn apart
Toxic friendship [is] beautifully explored in Hannah Beckerman's If Only I Could Tell You
Tender, heartbreaking and utterly beautiful
Life-affirming
A must-read. An absorbing tale of long-buried family secrets, grief and guilt with a midpoint twist that changes everything
A tender story that will have you reaching for tissues