Jacqueline Maley is an award-winning journalist and columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. She lives in Sydney. This is her first book.
'Electrifying, deeply unsettling and so, so satisfying' Meg Mason, author ofSorrow and Bliss
'I raced through this compelling tale about shame, single motherhood, and the lies we tell ourselves and other people' Daily Mail
Journalist and single mother Suzy Hamilton gets a phone call one summer morning, and finds out that the subject of one of her investigative exposs, wellness blogger Tracey Doran, has killed herself overnight. Suzy is horrified by this news but copes in the only way she knows how - through work, mothering, and carrying on with several ill-advised affairs.
The consequences of her actions catch up with Suzy over the course of a sticky Sydney summer. She starts receiving anonymous vindictive letters and is pursued by Tracey's mother wanting her, as a kind of rough justice, to tell Tracey's story, but this time, therightway.
A tender, absorbing, intelligent and moving exploration of guilt, shame, female anger, and, in particular, mothering, with all its trouble and treasure,The Truth About Heris mostly a story about the nature of stories - who owns them, who gets to tell them, and why we need them. An entirely striking, stylish and contemporary novel, from a talented new writer.
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