Description
The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy by Barbara Vine is a psychological mystery that explores identity, family secrets and the hidden truths behind a carefully constructed life.
When celebrated author Gerald Candless dies suddenly of a heart attack, his eldest daughter, Sarah, decides to write a memoir celebrating the father she adored. But her research uncovers disturbing inconsistencies in his past, leading her to a shocking discovery: Gerald Candless was not his real identity. As Sarah pieces together the fragments of his history, she begins to question everything she believed about her father and the secret that forced him to live under an assumed name for so many years.
With its gradual unravelling of a family’s past and its exploration of the stories people tell about themselves, this compelling novel is well suited to readers who enjoy literary mysteries, psychological suspense and secrets buried beneath seemingly respectable lives.
