01217nam a22001577b 450000500170000000800410001702000230005804000140008104100060009508200120010110000190011324500850013226000430021730000230026050007760028320240919123454.0240919b        sa ||||| |||| 00| 1 eng d  a9780241544945qpbk  aRDAcOCLC  2E  aEF PEAR  aPearse, Leslie  aDeceptionbHer past was a lie. Now she must discover the truthcby Leslie Pearse  aLondon;bPenguin Michael Joseph;c2022  a361 pagesc23.5 cm  aWhat happens when the person closest to you has led a life of deception?

After the funeral of her mother, Sally, Alice Kent is approached by a man named Angus Tweedy. He claims to be her father and tells her that he served time in prison for marrying Sally bigamously.

What does he hope to gain telling her this now, thirty years on? How can her adored dad Ralph not be her true father? And why did her mother betray her so badly?

She had accepted Sally's many faults, and her reluctance to never speak of the past. But faced with this staggering deception, Alice knows she must uncover the whole truth about her mother.

Whatever the cost.

Alice's journey into her mother's past is one of incredulity as she discovers a woman shaped by a truly traumatic childhood...