I do love Bette Lee Crosby’s books and this one didn’t disappoint. As someone whose very life growing up, had a
life that I wanted to tell lies about, I understood this character very
much. I’m honest to a fault but I was
able to find some things I connected with in the character of Suzanna
Duff. She starts telling lies after her
Mother died when she was ten years old, and her Daddy starting coming home very
drunk and out of control. Suzanna was
very lonely and she started lying to cover for her life when she is young and that
grew out of control as she grew older.
Her lies threaten to destroy her life and she has to come to terms with
it. The book was a good read, with well
fleshed out characters and a storyline that kept me going as Betty Lee Crosby’s
books do.
I received this book free in the kindle format from
Netgalley.com. My comments and thoughts
on this book are my own and I was not required to write a review in exchange
for the book.
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Description as found on NetGalley.com:
A lifetime of lies, and a truth too painful to tell.
When Suzanna Duff was ten years old, she lost her mama, and
that’s when the lies began. At first, they were just harmless little fibs, a
way to hide her unbearable loneliness and the truth about a daddy who came home
rip-roaring drunk every night. But in time, the lies grew bigger and now, when
she is a grown woman with a daughter of her own, they threaten to destroy
everything she loves.
The irony of this situation is that Suzanna never planned to
stay in Georgia, she was simply passing through, looking for a fresh start in
New Jersey. Attending that wake with her daughter Annie, was a fluke. An
opportunity to enjoy a free meal. It should have entailed nothing more than a
solemn nod and a brief expression of sympathy but, Ida Parker, the grieving
widow mistook her for her the granddaughter who was carried off as an infant.
Too embarrassed to do anything else, Suzanna played along. What harm was there
in pretending to be someone else for a few hours? Hours turned into days and
days into weeks; strangers became friends, love happened, and before long a
year had flown by.
Now the past is standing on her
doorstep and Suzanna must decide to leave here and disappear as she has done
before, or tell the truth and break the hearts of those she loves most.
