A Grain of Truth

Alison Cathcart was twelve when she told a lie that destroyed her father's life — or was it a lie? Now thirty-four, hollowed out by guilt and working as a social worker in Bristol, she discovers a box of unopened letters hidden by her late mother: fifteen years of her father's words she was never meant to read. Tracking him to a remote Cornish village, Alison seeks the clean confession she believes will set them both free. But the truth she finds is far more unsettling than any single story can hold.