A powerful and thought provoking family drama centred around a chilling real life example of the abuse of power. 1960’s North Carolina. Newlywed Jane desperately wants a career as a social worker but with rural poverty finds it shockingly different from her middle class upbringing. Then she uncovers a shocking secret causing a moral dilemma that threatens every part of her life. Definitely one for fans of Jodi Picoult.
If you're a fan of Jodi Picoult, you'll love Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain, bestselling author of The Midwife's Confession . . .
North Carolina, 1960. Newlywed Jane Forrester, fresh out of university, is seeking what most other women have shunned: a career.
But life as a social worker is far from what she expected. Out amongst the rural tobacco fields of Grace County, Jane encounters a world of extreme poverty that is far removed from the middle-class life she has grown up with.
But worse is still to come. Working with the Hart family and fifteen-year-old Ivy, it's not long before Jane uncovers a shocking secret, and she is thrust into a moral dilemma that puts her career on the line, threatens to dissolve her marriage and, ultimately, determines the fate of Ivy and her family forever.
Soon Jane is forced to take drastic action, and before long there is no turning back.
A companion short story, The First Lie, is available in eBook.
Diane Chamberlain is a multiple Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author, beloved by readers around the world for stories that are rich with emotion, laced with secrets and that inspire thoughtful conversations. Born and raised in New Jersey, Diane obtained a master’s degree in social work in San Diego. She then worked in hospitals before opening her own private psychotherapy practice, focusing primarily on at-risk teenagers. This background as a psychotherapist has given Diane great insight into the secrets that families hold beneath the surface and how destructive they can be when they come to light. She has observed first-hand the ability of those under tremendous pressure to tap into their inner strength – a resilience that inspires her most-loved characters.
Diane Chamberlain has written twenty-nine bestselling novels, and her books have been published in more than twenty languages. She makes her home in North Carolina with her partner, photographer John Pagliuca, and her Shetland Sheepdog, Cole.
