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Thursday, March 28, 2019

Spotlight: The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer

Author: Kelly Rimmer
Publisher: Graydon House
Publication Date: March 2019

In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It’s a decision that will alter her destiny…and it’s a lie that will remain buried until the next century.

Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border, believing her neighbors that they pose no real threat, and dreams instead of the day Tomasz returns from college in Warsaw so they can be married. But little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi occupation takes hold, and Alina’s tiny rural village, its families, are divided by fear and hate. Then, as the fabric of their lives is slowly picked apart, Tomasz disappears. Where Alina used to measure time between visits from her beloved, now she measures the spaces between hope and despair, waiting for word from Tomasz and avoiding the attentions of the soldiers who patrol her parents’ farm. But for now, even deafening silence is preferable to grief.

Slipping between Nazi-occupied Poland and the frenetic pace of modern life, Kelly Rimmer creates an emotional and finely wrought narrative that weaves together two women’s stories into a tapestry of perseverance, loyalty, love and honor. The Things We Cannot Say is an unshakable reminder of the devastation when truth is silenced…and how it can take a lifetime to find our voice before we learn to trust it.


About the auhor:


Kelly Rimmer is the USA Today best selling author of contemporary fiction novels including Me Without You, The Secret Daughter, When I Lost You, A Mother’s Confession and her most recent release, Before I Let You Go. She lives in rural Australia with her family.
For further information about Kelly’s books, and to subscribe to her mailing list, visit www.kellyrimmer.com.

Connect with Kelly
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Kelly Rimmer’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, March 11th: Where the Reader Grows and @wherethereadergrows
Tuesday, March 12th: Book by Book
Wednesday, March 13th: Bookish Bliss and Beauty
Friday, March 15th: Chick Lit Central
Monday, March 18th: @booktimistic and Booktimistic
Wednesday, March 20th: Novel Gossip and @novelgossip
Monday, March 25th: @readingbetweenthe_wines
Thursday, March 28th: Patricia’s Wisdom
Thursday, March 28th: From the TBR Pile
Monday, April 1st: Books and Bindings
Thursday, April 4th: Girls in Books and @girlsinbooks
Friday, April 5th: The Lit Bitch
TBD: Tuesday, March 19th: @booksandpolkadots


1 comment:

Sara Strand said...

Thanks for being on the tour.

Sara @ TLC Book Tours