The Things We Left Unsaid reads like an off-beat romantic comedy. It certainly has all of the ingredients: drama, complicated characters, conflict and resolution.
It has real, and sometimes unlikeable characters. The setting of the family country home is gorgeous and works well. The Things We Left Unsaid also talks a a lot about the human condition and how we are always searching for who we are and trying to find out the truth of the past. A good read.
Rachel’s relationship with her mother, Eleanor, has always been far from perfect. Eleanor is a renowned artist born from the swinging sixties, and Rachel has forever lived in the shadow of her success.
When Rachel is left by her fiancé on the morning of their wedding she has no choice but to move back into her family home and spend an unbearably hot summer with a mother she feels distant from – in the presence of many painful memories.
It will take another turn of events before Rachel realises that sometimes the past holds exactly the comfort we need. And that behind the words left unsaid are untold stories that have the power to define us.
Imbued with warmth and full of characters who will steal your heart, THE THINGS WE LEFT UNSAID is a radiant novel in which past and present collide with life-affirming consequences.