#BlogTour-‘If Only I Could Tell You’ by Hannah Beckerman

‘If Only I Could Tell You’ by Hannah Beckerman is available from Orion Books in hardback,audiobook and aBook formats, and welcome to my turn on the blog tour for this amazing book,courtesy of Tracy Fenton from Compulsive Readers.

*Disclaimer* IT WILL MAKE YOU CRY! LOTS!

About the book…

‘I loved it’ Jojo Moyes’

Compelling and moving’ Marian Keyes***

A twist that will break your heart . . . An ending that will put it back together Audrey’s family has fallen apart.

Her two grown-up daughters, Jess and Lily, are estranged, and her two teenage granddaughters have never been allowed to meet.

A secret that echoes back thirty years has splintered the family in two, but is also the one thing keeping them connected.

As tensions reach breaking point, the irrevocable choice that one of them made all those years ago is about to surface.

After years of secrets and silence, how can one broken family find their way back to each other?Moving, thoughtful and surprising, If ‘Only I Could Tell You’ is impossible to put down – and impossible to forget.

You know those books that just stay with you, give that special spidey sense tingle as you start it and give you that feeling that you are in the prescence of something special?

‘If Only…’is one of those books. This is an incredible debut.

There are books which are issue laden and you get the sense, as a reader, that you are being manipulated into feeling a certain way, that the construction is impeccable ,the author’s intention is true but, it’s a case of ‘here is where you are meant to be outraged’,’here is where you are supposed to cry’ …same as with movies it can feel forced.

With this book,you will sit there and suddenly realise that you are crying,there are tears flooding down your face. You go for a walk and you feel punch drunk with sorrow for this little family whose three generations are struggling and suffering from the events of decades ago.

Audrey is out of time and out of luck. She has been given only 18 months left to live and after 30 years of not knowing why her 2 daughters have stopped talking to each other, the time has come to end the impasse.

Both daughters, Lily and Jess have their own teenage girls who have only seen each other as very small children-Audrey had attempted to get the sisters to talk to each other then, but it backfired spectacularly and deepened the rift.

Time is running out for all of them,Audrey wants to go knowing that her granddaughters will have a relationship. But at the same time it is about living, not ending things. It is about hope and moving on ,taking risks and chances in the hope for something better to happen.It is not about satisfying Audrey’s need to see things being out right, it’s her family’s future she is concerned about not her own self.

Audrey is genuinely one of the most selfless characters I have ever come across-she has made mistakes, as have we all, but she keeps going.She does not give up and her love for Lily, Jess, their daughters Mia and Phoebe comes shining through each page.

There are so many things that each character hasn’t told each other-never out of spite or anger but out of love and a need to protect. But when time is rapidly disappearing like sand through an hour glass, the opportunity to tell the truth is swiftly disappearing forever.

Life affirming and so very special, my heartfelt thanks go to Tracy and Hannah for having me on the blogtour.

About the Author…

Hannah Beckerman is an author, journalist and broadcaster. She is a regular contributor to The Observer, The FT Weekend Magazine, and The Sunday Express, and was the book critic on Sara Cox’s Radio 2 Show. She chairs literary events around the UK and has been a judge on numerous book prizes including the Costa Book Awards.

Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Hannah was a TV Executive who spent fifteen years producing and commissioning documentaries about the Arts, History and Science for the BBC, Channel 4 and Discovery USA before turning her hand to writing.

Hannah lives in London with her husband and their daughter.

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