The Secret of Lies

It was really the most innocent thing, my motivation to sit down and start writing this book, not at all profound or remarkable and yet it became a twenty year obsession over an intense and rocky highway. I clearly recall standing at the kitchen sink on a late summer afternoon washing dishes and staring out the window at nothing in particular, when this little seed of an idea came rolling through my head, and I found myself wondering what it would be like for someone to just get up and walk out the door - not tell anyone, or take anything, just walk away from their entire life and start-over on a new page somewhere else. And then what circumstance or event in a person's life would compel them to such drastic action. That was it. I had no characters, no ... brilliantly written. Whispering Winds Book Review Named BOOK OF THE MONTH at FemmeVip.com, October 2010: Barbara Forte Abate resolves the conflict and does not leave the readers hanging...The author brought everything to life and made you feel you were a part of the family. The dialogue was enjoyable and true to life. The words were descriptive and continued to propel the story forward. Barbara Forte Abate has written a creative, entertaining story in The Secret of Lies, which makes any reader understand the hidden secrets in any family. J.Andrew, Book Pleasures Barbara Forte Abate has such a gift for bringing to life real relationships between ordinary people that she creates an ongoing challenge to her readers by beginning her book with the lowest point of her character’s life: being drawn to run away and face her inner demons alone... Barbara Forte Abate is a sensitive writer who knows that there are no neutral observers in a dysfunctional family... For The Love of Reading Book Review plan, no plot ideas. Just that one little thought that once I started writing it, took off at a gallop. It became so many things I hadn't anticipated when I started.

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