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? Moving, thoughtful and surprising, If Only I Could Tell You is impossible to put down - and impossible to forget.
Title: If Only I Could Tell You
Author: Hannah Beckerman
Published By: Orion
Publication Date: 21st February
Our Review
If Only I Could Tell You by Hannah Beckerman is such a beautifully written and heartbreaking story. The ending transcends what we have come to expect from a tear jerking novel and literally takes us to another realm.
The story is told from three points of view, Audrey and her two daughters Jess and Lily and it moves between the present and 1988 when a traumatic incident occurs in the family.
The relationships between the three main characters are extremely complicated and Audrey is always torn between her daughters.
This book is about a family who are all painfully suffering in different ways and although they have kept a distance between them, they each hold a key to the others cure.
I felt that the story was going one way and then was completely surprised when it veered into a completely different direction that I really didn’t see coming. The way Hannah writes and reveals the story is so subtle and delicate it’s almost like peeling back the petals of a beautiful rose.
This is the first of Hannah’s books that I’ve read and I shall now read her back catalogue.
Sincerely
Book Angel x
About the Author
Hannah Beckerman is an author, journalist and broadcaster. She is a regular contributor to The Observer, The FT Weekend Magazine, and The Sunday Express, and was the book critic on Sara Cox's Radio 2 Show. She chairs literary events around the UK and has been a judge on numerous book prizes including the Costa Book Awards.
Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Hannah was a TV Executive who spent fifteen years producing and commissioning documentaries about the Arts, History and Science for the BBC, Channel 4 and Discovery USA before turning her hand to writing.
Hannah lives in London with her husband and their daughter.
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