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Book SynopsisA TWIST THAT WILL BREAK YOUR HEART . . . AN ENDING THAT WILL PUT IT BACK TOGETHER AGAIN.
''I loved it'' Jojo Moyes
''Compelling and moving . . . it made me cry'' Marian Keyes
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Audrey''s family has fallen apart. Her two grown-up daughters, Jess and Lily, are estranged, and her two teenage granddaughters have never been allowed to meet. A secret that echoes back thirty years has splintered the family in two, but is also the one thing keeping them connected.
As tensions reach breaking point, the irrevocable choice that one of them made all those years ago is about to surface. After years of secrets and silence, how can one broken family find their way back to each other?
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Praise for If Only I Could Tell You:
''A must-read. An absorbing tale of long-buried family secrets, grief and guilt with a midpoint twist that changes everything'' - S
Trade Review
A must-read. An absorbing tale of long-buried family secrets, grief and guilt with a midpoint twist that changes everything * Sunday Express Magazine *
Tender, heartbreaking and utterly beautiful * Psychologies *
Life-affirming * Red *
Hot reads: If Only I Could Tell You really tugs the heartstrings * Good Housekeeping *
A tender story that will have you reaching for tissues * PRIMA *
Tense, moving and tender * Sun on Sunday *
A powerful novel about grief, guilt and...secrets * Sunday Express *
A compelling yet tender tale * Woman & Home *
A tender story * Sunday Mirror *
Emotionally-charged and superbly crafted . . . For all its emotional intensity and heartbreaking themes, Beckerman's compelling, compassionate novel delivers ultimately life-affirming and uplifting messages with eloquence, elegance and an acute understanding of the delicate but unbreakable bonds of family * Lancashire Post *
A tender and heartbreaking second novel * Daily Mail *
I loved it * Jojo Moyes *
A beautiful tale... Heartbreaking and uplifting -- Ruth Jones
Utterly compelling and completely heart-breaking -- Ruth Hogan
A tender portrait of family lives, losses and secrets -- Clare Mackintosh
Wonderful . . . I loved it to bits -- Joanna Cannon
Engaging, clever, and wonderfully satisfying . . . storytelling at its finest -- Kate Mosse
I pure loved it! Compelling and deeply moving -- Marian Keyes
A tender, moving portrait of three women's lives... If Only I Could Tell You broke my heart -- Rosie Walsh, author of The Man Who Didn't Call
An intricately tender novel about secrets and silence -- Julie Cohen
Totally engrossing, achingly sad and so perceptive -- Kate Eberlen
[An] incredibly moving, poignant book...It will have you in floods of tears -- Louise O'Neill
Profoundly beautiful and heartbreaking in turn -- Kate Hamer
Utterly heartbreaking and beautifully written -- Libby Page
A wise and tender tale of a family divided...compelling from the first page to the last -- Emylia Hall
A brave depiction of a family torn apart -- Laura Barnett
Lyrical and deeply emotional -- Katy Regan
Toxic friendship [is] beautifully explored in Hannah Beckerman's If Only I Could Tell You * Marie Claire *
