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    Who’s Lying Now?
    Who’s Lying Now?
    Who’s Lying Now?
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    Who’s Lying Now?

    By Susan Lewis

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    Don’t miss the captivating new page-turner from internationally bestselling author Susan Lewis

    You think you’re safe.
    You think you know your neighbours.
    But can you ever really know who’s telling the truth?
     
    Jeannie Symonds is a force to be reckoned with – an eccentric, award-winning publisher, spending lockdown with her husband in a house near Kesterly-on-Sea. She seems to have it all: a high-flying career, a happy marriage, a niece she adores.
     
    And then one day, she vanishes.
     
    Cara Jakes is a new trainee investigator – young, intelligent and eager to prove herself. When she teams up with detective Andee Lawrence to look into the disappearance, she is determined to find out what has really happened to Jeannie. Cara begins to question the residents of this close-knit community, sure that someone has a secret to hide.
     
    But how can she separate the truth from the lies?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateApr 14, 2022
    ISBN9780008547387
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    Susan Lewis

    Susan Lewis is the internationally bestselling author of more than forty novels as well as two memoirs. Born in England and having resided in France and the United States for many years, she now lives in Gloucestershire, England.

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    • 4/5
      Her life is not one she would have picked for herself—a dead husband, a missing son, an imminent eviction—but Angie Watts cannot give up. She desperately wants to make ends meet and settle into a new normal, whatever that may be, but obstacle after obstacle stands in her way. Home Truths conveys this challenging experience with ease. Though there are points in the book where nothing seems to be happening, I still could not stop reading. I just wanted something to go right for Angie and her family. They deal with problem after problem after problem, and it seems like there is little hope—but there is always love.If you love stories of family and hard times, Home Truths by Susan Lewis is for you.I received a complimentary copy of this book and the opportunity to provide an honest review. I was not required to write a positive review, and all the opinions I have expressed are my own.
    • 4/5
      Home Truths by Susan Lewis is a poignant and sometimes bleak novel about a mother's financial struggles following a tragedy.

      In her early forties, Angie Watts is a widow who is trying to keep her family afloat following the murder of her beloved husband, Steve. She is also very worried about her oldest son, Liam, whose involvement in gangs and drug use tore their family apart. Angie deeply regrets lashing out at her son while angry and grieving. Liam left and never returned home but she continues searching for him. Currently, her search for him takes a backseat to her fruitless attempts to prevent her landlord from evicting her, thirteen year old Grace and seven year old Zac.  Angie is also swimming in a sea of debt and despite juggling numerous jobs, she is becoming more desperate with each passing day. With the help of her sister Emma, Angie is hanging on by a thread when their precarious situation begins to collapse. And unbeknownst to Angie, troubling is brewing with Grace as she tries to help her mum. Will Angie's efforts to save her family be successful?

      Angie is shocked at how quickly her financial situation spiraled out of control.  But her reaction to the crisis is not exactly healthy as she ignores her increasingly fraught circumstances. She is very lucky to have Emma to count on for moral support and help with Zac and Grace. Unfortunately Emma is not able to provide much financial assistance since she is a single mum of two sons.  Angie has managed to hide just how dire her circumstances have become, but it soon becomes impossible to keep her secrets.

      Grace is well aware of their financial difficulties and she desperately wants to help. She is mature for her age, but she does not fully comprehend the risks she is taking on social media. Grace and her best friend Lois brainstorm ideas to raise money and when a solution presents itself, they keep their plans to themselves. With Angie distracted, Grace makes a decision that could culminate with tragic results.

      Home Truths is a hard-hitting novel that deals with real life topics such as gang activity, homelessness, human trafficking, debt and poverty. The storyline is sometimes heavy and occasionally depressing, but it is impossible not to become invested in Angie's efforts to provide for her family. Susan Lewis brings this thought-provoking and engrossing novel to a surprisingly uplifting and heartwarming conclusion.  A true to life, realistic portrayal of topical issues that I recommend to readers of the genre.
    • 4/5
      This is an emotional novel about how quickly life can change. One minute you can be part of a happy family and by a twist of fate, you become a single mother on the edge of eviction from your family home and depending on handouts for the food to feed your children. The main character is a mother who will do anything she can to protect and take care of her children.This novel alternates between two time lines - Angie as a young mother, getting married and with Liam as a happy child and Angie in present day trying to keep her two children in their family home. Angie is a brave woman and tries to do everything on her own - she doesn't like to ask for help and by the time she does, her life is pretty hopeless. She is a loving mother whose main concern is her two children at home even as she yearns to find out what happened to her oldest son. I found it amazing how quickly life could go from middle class to extreme poverty and not having money to pay rent or buy food. Even though Angie worked several jobs, she still struggled with money. This is a dark and gritty book that deals with homelessness, drugs, human trafficking and prostitution and it will make you hope for the best for Angie and her family, and, yes, cry some tears for them too.Angie and her family definitely deserve a happily ever after ending but will they be able to find their way out of their current circumstances and find happiness? or will life continue to keep them down? How far will a mother go to protect her family that she loves? This emotional book by Susan Lewis will keep you turning pages while you hope for a better life for this family.Thanks to the publisher for a copy of this book to read and review. All opinions are my own.
    • 2/5
      I feel slightly robbed. The opening pages of this book are hard-hitting, brutal, and lead one to believe they are going to get a gritty novel. Sadly, the rest of the book never quite lives up to the prologue.

      Angie Watts’ life is irreversibly changed when her son, Liam, is groomed by a County Line gang, setting of a course of events that lead to the brutal murder of her husband (that’s not a spoiler, just a summary of the prologue). We’re then taken through Angie’s struggles due to her cruel landlord, changes to the benefit system, insensitive council departments, and so on. There’s much to be said on this topic, and it would be the basis of a great book, if handled well. Unfortunately, this book isn’t it. It felt trite, I didn’t really feel engaged with any of the characters, there’s too much “telling” and not enough “showing”. - tell the story to lead me to my own conclusions, don’t give me paragraphs of the main character’s inner monologue explaining the themes of the book.

      What most annoyed me was the relationship between Angie and Martin. It didn’t feel at all realistic. Both still apparently pining for their former partners, yet Martin is prepared to go out of his way to help one woman because he’s got the hots for her. It all turned out just far too trite.

      The book is overly long, and too sentimental. I really wanted to like this book but overall I felt disappointed.

      With thanks to Readers First who provided a free copy of this book in exchange for an open and honest review.
    • 3/5
      Life for Angie Watts used to be so good: she had a loving husband, three adored children, Liam, Grace and Zac, and a beautiful home. Then, whilst still at primary school Liam, her sensitive, vulnerable eldest child became involved with a bad crowd from a local, rough estate and started taking drugs. Whilst Angie and her husband Steve tried their best to steer him away from these bad influences, their gentle son gradually became almost unrecognisable and they found themselves unable to combat the manipulative power of the gang culture. Steve’s patience finally snapped when he discovered their youngest child, five-year-old Zac, with a syringe in his hand. He stormed out of the house, determined to track down Liam, and other members of the gang, and turn them all in to the police. This decision leads to his murder and will have far-reaching repercussions for the rest of the family as Angie struggles to cope in the aftermath. Having refused to allow Liam back home immediately after Steve’s murder she now has no idea where he is but, full of regret about her rejection of him, and determined to hold her fractured family together, she remains tireless in her efforts to find him. She is made redundant, struggles to make ends meet and, in spite of selling treasured belongings, falls deeper and deeper into debt and eventually faces losing her home. Grace, wanting to do something to earn money to ease her mother’s problems, exposes herself to danger when she looks for help in the wrong place.This story explores how easy it is for an apparently stable family to start to disintegrate following a major crisis. Angie, the main character, is a loving mother, determined to do her best for her children and to keep her family together but this doesn’t prevent her from falling victim to spiralling debt and an increasingly desperate feeling that, in spite of all her efforts, her life is running out of control. Although there were moments when I felt irritated by her ostrich-like tendency to ignore the implications of her mounting debts, the story did demonstrate that there are huge problems with the way in which the benefit system works, problems which all too often contribute to driving hard-working families into increasing debt.The storyline incorporates many of the challenges which affect contemporary society. These include the pernicious influence of county lines gangs which infiltrate small communities, preying on vulnerable young people and introducing easy access to drugs before turning them into either addicts or couriers, or sometimes both; the lack of suitable accommodation available when families become homeless; struggles with mental health; pay-day loans; human trafficking and internet grooming via social media. Although there are many ways in which I found this to be a well-written, well-researched and thought-provoking story, and think that the author created characters it was easy to feel some empathy with, I ended up feeling rather dissatisfied. I think this was mainly because, given the dark nature of some of the themes explored, some of the resolutions felt far too neatly resolved and “fairy-tale” for my taste. However, I think the book would provide some interesting topics for reading group discussion. With thanks to the publisher and Readers First for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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