The Secrets We Left Behind: A Novel

It was a summer of love and a summer of secrets She has built a good life a husband who adores her a daughter she is fiercely proud of a home with warmth and love at its heart But things were not always so good and the truth is that she has done things she can never admit Then one evening a phone call comes out of the blue It is a voice from long ago a man from a past that she has tried so hard to hide He knows who she really is and what she has done Now he is dying and he gives her an ultimatum either she tells the truth or he will And so we are taken back to that long hot summer of 1976 to a house by the sea on the southern coast of England where her story begins and where the truth will be revealed Told in dual narratives that jump back and forth in time Elliot Wright has crafted a story with secrets that unfold through the very last page Compelling immersive and thoroughly surprising The Secrets We Left Behind is a stunning follow up to the author s acclaimed UK debut The Things We Never Said Skyhorse Publishing as well as our Arcade Yucca and Good Books imprints are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fictionnovels novellas political and medical thrillers comedy satire historical fiction romance erotic and love stories mystery classic literature folklore and mythology literary classics including Shakespeare Dumas Wilde Cather and much more While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home She has built a good life a husband who adores her a daughter she is fiercely proud of a home with warmth and love at its heart But things were not always so good and the truth is that she has done things she can never admit Then one evening a phone call comes out of the blue It is a voice from long ago from a past that she h