The Truth About You

"The Truth About You" is my second wary attempt at Susan Lewis's writing. 

This was a much more interesting and engaging read for me. Lainey Hollingsworth is the wife of a fairly successful writer. She manages her husband's writing career, takes care of her family, which includes a rebellious daughter, a stepson who seems to blame her for disrupting his family and an adoptive father who is suffering from Alzheimer's.

The book explores so many relationships between the main characters. Lainey seemed to have a volatile relationship with her mother who has fled from Italy to England while Lainey was in infant. While Lainey loves her step father and takes care of him, she longs to know about her past and her biological father, and the secrets that her mother fled from.

As Lainey plans a visit to dig out the truth's from her mother's past, she is confronted with another demon from her current life. She is caught unawares as her husband drops a bombshell which shatters her trust in her husband and their marriage.

She is caught between the secrets of her past and the troubles in her current marital bliss, as she struggles to face and figure out who she is, the reality she must live in and the choices she needs to make.

"The Truth About You" was engrossing even though it didn't make me think or contemplate too much after the story for completed. I would give this a rating of 3.5~4 on 5.