![]() ![]() ![]() What she doesn’t know is what awaits down this garden path and where it will all lead you suspect she may still have started down the road anyway because the need for answers is that pronounced and impelling, but you wonder how quickly she would have run towards the eventual truths revealed if she had truly known their full extent. It is necessary and far preferable to wrapping yourself in a suffocating blanket of lies and self-delusion but getting there can be devlishly difficult, especially when like Romilly Kemp, the protagonist in Polly Crosby’s wondrously, quirkily, emotionally resonant debut novel, The Book of Hidden Wonders, you’re not even aware that it’s the truth you are actually seeking.Ĭertainly when Romilly begins to realise things are not quite right with her dad and that the man he was is increasingly far from present in their daily interactions, she simply knows she has to work out what is going on if she’s ever to feel to comfortable with life again. ![]() While there is a great deal to be said for the fact that the truth will set you free, what is often overlooked is now painful the embrace of that truth can be. ![]() (cover image courtesy Harper Collins Australia) ![]()
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