The Truth About Us

Three women, roommates back in college, find their lives forever altered when one of them feels compelled to confess the secret.

The Truth About Us weaves the past and the present in a page-turner that explores the shifting quality of truth and the cost of secrets.

"...strong opinions about this book. It's great for a book club - lots of discussion."

"This is fasted paced and well written, I kept turning the pages until the end."

"This book takes off and doesn't stop."

©2009 Dalene Flannigan (P)2018 Dalene Flannigan

Riveting and Beautifully Written

The story is timely and riveting but I was surprised by the beauty and skill of the writing. Although told from three points of view, in two time periods, it was not confusing and continually moved forward at an ever-quickening pace. Definitely a page-turner but I had to stop many times to take in a phrase, or thought.
"Fault wasn't only at the end of a line, but distributed all along, point to point, person to person: an accumulation of small, guilty contributions."
"Not all secrets are sins in need of forgiveness. But secrets are central to a person's being. They are who we are. The truth of us can be found in our secrets."
First time I used the highlight function on my Kindle!
The narration took me a short while to get into but then I thought she did and amazing job of upping the tension and keeping the characters recognizable.