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.
