What’s Left Unsaid- Deborah Stone- Love books #Lovebooksgrouptours Womens fiction
Sacha lives with her husband Jeremy and their son Zac along with their dog Stanley.
Zac decides that they should make a film of their lives so that he will have something to look
back on when they are no longer there. He also wants to involve Sacha’s mother Annie.
The thing is that Annie is getting rather forgetful to say the least and as with many older
people she can remember 50 years ago much better than a few moments previously.
Dementia is unfortunately beginning to take its grasp on her When she is interviewed
for the film her clarity is amazing and she relives her childhood and memories.
Chapters alternate between Sacha, Joe (her deceased father) and Annie.
Zac discovers a secret- one that Sacha has kept for a very long time.
Everyone has their secrets and some have sadly shaped who they are today.
I found this an engaging read and felt for Sacha even before the secrets part of the
story. She appeared to have so much to cope with and no one to talk to, as well as
being taken for granted by those around her. Much of the read is about the past-
which is really interesting. Sacha’s father’s family coming over from Russia and there
struggle of being Jewish. Her mother of being evacuated during the war and how
it affected her most of her life. A story of families and secrets, of truths and lies.
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Sasha is just about managing to hold her life together. She is raising her teenage son Zac, coping with
an absent husband and caring for her ageing, temperamental and alcoholic mother, as well as holding
down her own job. But when Zac begins to suspect that he has a secret sibling, Sasha realises that she
must relive the events of a devastating night which she has done her best to forget for the past nineteen
years.
Sasha’s mother, Annie, is old and finds it difficult to distinguish between past and present and between
Sasha’s mother, Annie, is old and finds it difficult to distinguish between past and present and between
truth and lies. As Annie sinks deeper back into her past, she revisits the key events in her life which
have shaped her emotionally. Through it all, she remains convinced that her dead husband Joe is
watching and waiting for her. But there’s one thing she never told him, and as painful as it is for her
to admit the truth, Annie is determined to go to Joe with a guilt-free conscience.
As the plot unfurls, traumas are revealed and lies uncovered, revealing long-buried secrets which
As the plot unfurls, traumas are revealed and lies uncovered, revealing long-buried secrets which
are at the root of Annie and Sasha’s fractious relationship.
Author Bio:
Deborah Stone read English Literature at Durham University. She lives in North London with her husband, two sons and her dog.
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