Secrets

between men and women’

Marie Claire

‘Sassy, feel-good chick lit with a good sting in the tail’

Cosmopolitan

home truths:

‘An eye-poppingly sexy start leads into a family reunion laced

with secrets. Tangled mother/daughter relationships unravel

and tantalising family riddles keep you glued to the end’

Cosmopolitan

‘You'll laugh, cry, then laugh some more’

Company

‘Freya North manages to strike a good balance between drama, comedy and

romance, and has penned another winner in Home Truths… touching, enjoyable’ Heat

‘An addictive read with a realistic view of home life, sisterhood and identity crisis’

Prima

For Jessica Adams, Sarah Henderson, Kirsty Johnson – and Jo Smith –

for your unconditional and bountiful support, love and laughter.thank you xxx

I could not get tae my love if Aa wad dee The waters of Tyne cem betwixt her and me Sae thor Aa wad stand wiv a tear in my ee Till the Smoggies

(#ulink_22b39a31-0d72-5803-a331-a8ec447f15a4)cem and built a bridge Ower them for me

(regional version,

‘Waters of the Tyne’, trad.)

(#ulink_22b39a31-0d72-5803-a331-a8ec447f15a4) Geordie moniker for Middlesbrough folk

Table of Contents

Copyright (#u16c465b8-80a5-5a94-a48e-d0b79018feb3)

Praise (#ue0f50f76-ed36-5a5e-8d14-515238b4537b)

Epigraph (#u653818ce-a3fe-5f13-9a13-cca5e9628c31)

Resolution (#ue6b27a2f-1cad-5baf-8679-3c4ad195fe64)

Prologue (#u6dc6a51b-c41e-547c-9855-eb3c8bb5b92a)

Chapter One (#u1470d33a-013b-5cb5-926c-ce06468a2166)

Chapter Two (#u9e5e7fb4-f379-5f0d-891c-0c69d3b8f4af)

Chapter Three (#ueaf5d01f-7483-5d13-bbf0-e44c40eb88d9)

Chapter Four (#u491662af-280d-5ab5-93d5-62aab46e0a85)

Chapter Five (#u24cd1cff-35a5-5ce4-82a2-b5116a1c88ac)

Chapter Six (#u765444c3-d334-5526-b979-4c6aeefede37)

Chapter Seven (#ude74ad06-59df-5752-b540-05f6a94330b2)

Chapter Eight (#u031f43aa-e5b4-59b3-ae5c-ce4df5452c10)

Chapter Nine (#u3da9de25-406e-5b35-ba54-87afe6159083)

Chapter Ten (#u03c04995-24d3-5582-9109-abd56b30cfc0)

Chapter Eleven (#u5505d511-30e3-57ae-bad5-64a942dbe54f)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-one (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-two (#litres_trial_promo)