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The Truth and Other Hidden Things - Lea Geller

 


Genre: Fiction/Comedy 
Release Date: Expected April 2021 

Bells Walker is a normal 40-something suburban mum. Husband, Two Kids, Place-holder job writing for the local gazette.
Until one very bad day.
Her IUD has failed and she's now dealing with an  'advanced maternal age' pregnancy, her husband Harry doesn't make tenure at the university, and on top of all that she has no idea how she's going to tell her overly judgemental mother and adolescent children.

Now the whole family, baby bump included, move to Dutchess Country for Harrys' new job - to the beautifully named town of Pigkill. With a house that's falling apart, her children miserable and nothing to do - Bells gets back to writing. But not about wonky pavements this time!

Under the brilliantly named moniker of the Country Dutchess, Bells starts dishing all the secrets about the residents of Pigkill, about her real thoughts about marriage and parenting, about anything she wants to say under the security of being totally anonymous. But people are not happy, and the mystery around the County Dutchess blog grows more every day - but how far can she push this before it comes back to haunt her? 

This book starting off bordering on absurd in the very best way- the bad luck that Bells was dealt day after day, but all in a hilariously light-hearted way. As a woman who is slowly approaching her thirties, I felt all of Bells worries and couldn't help but relate to every mishap and worry she found herself in ... well, most of them anyway. She gave brilliant insights into trying to balance a career, a house, the husband and the kids, and I laughed a LOT. 

The second half of this book, however, felt like I had jumped into a completely different story and it definitely threw me off - it got very serious, very quickly and while I was still invested in finding out what would happent to Bell, it was a little difficult getting fully immersed back into the story and admittedly I was slightly annoyed at the very abrupt shift in her personality towards the end of the book. I still finished and the ending didn't satisfy me completely but I still enjoyed myself.

This is the type of book you'd love to read on holiday - it's funny, it's cute, it's utterly absurd and it's very easy to read in one sitting. 

Thank you to NetGalley and Lea Geller for providing with this ARC in exchange for an honest review. Please note that all opinions contained within are my own.

RATING:  ⭐⭐⭐

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