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    Top 10 books about family secrets | Jyoti Patel

    Jan 18, 2023 4 minutes


    Where there are families there are stories and where there are stories there are always secrets. It’s ripe crop for a writer. In literature, these are a staple of the coming-of-age novel. Family secrets seem to rise to the surface when a protagonist steps from childhood into adulthood, in that equally devastating and freeing moment of realising that one exists both within a family and outside of it, too.

    It’s something I find myself drawn towards as a reader and as a writer – to the way untold truths take root between friends, lovers, families. In my debut novel, , I explore a family history through the eyes of a British Indian mother and son, Avani and Nik, as Nik tries to uncover the

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