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
minute. 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.