The Truth and Other Hidden Things

Name: The Truth and Other Hidden Things
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Lea Geller
ISBN: 9781713562917

Author: Lea Geller

Narrator: Andi Arndt

Unabridged: 8 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 04/06/2021

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Humorous, Women

Synopsis

A freshly funny and heartfelt novel about one woman’s secret life, the stories she tells, and the thrill and notoriety of being noticed.On the same day Bells Walker learns that her IUD has failed, her husband, Harry, is denied tenure at his Manhattan university. So Bells, Harry, their two adolescent children, and her baby bump move to New York’s Hudson Valley, where Harry has landed a job at Dutchess College in the town of Pigkill.When the farm-to-table utopia Bells envisioned is anything but, she turns to the blogosphere. Under the pen name the County Dutchess, she anonymously dishes about life in Pigkill, detailing the activities of hypercompetitive parents and kombucha-drinking hipsters. Suddenly, Bells has a place to say all the things she’s been secretly thinking about being a wife and mother. As Bells turns the focus of her blog on her new neighbors, her readership continues to grow, but her scandalous posts hit closer to home: she puts Harry’s new job in jeopardy, derails her children’s lives, and risks the one real friendship she’s built.When Bells uncovers scandals right under her nose, the Dutchess goes viral, and soon everyone is asking, Who is the County Dutchess? Now Bells has to ask herself if it’s worth losing the people closest to her to finally feel noticed by everyone else.

About Lea Geller

Lea Geller is the author of Trophy Life. A recipient of the 2019 Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship at Sarah Lawrence College, she began her writing career by blogging about her adventures in the trenches of parenting. Lea lives in New York with her husband and children, for whom she frequently wakes up and makes several separate breakfasts. When Lea’s not writing and eavesdropping on her children, she can be found running, gardening, drinking diner coffee, and occasionally teaching middle school English. She is a graduate of Columbia University and Stanford Law School. You can find Lea at www.leageller.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on April 08, 2021

I LOVED Trophy Life last year for its charm and wit, and I enjoyed The Truth and Other Hidden Things just as much! Bells becomes a blogger writer under a pen name, exposing secrets and scandals in her own community. Eventually, her posting puts her family and friends at stake in more ways than one, b......more

Goodreads review by Berit☀️✨ on April 18, 2021

What a fun fun book! #WhoIsTheCountyDuchess On The same day that 43-year-old Bell finds out her husband did not get tenure she finds out that her IUD failed and she is pregnant. Bell is not certain what her teenage children are more upset about, mom having a baby or moving out of Manhattan? The Fami......more

Goodreads review by Nursebookie on May 01, 2021

The Truth and Other Hidden Things By Lea Geller Lea Geller’s The Truth and Other Hidden Things is such a wonderful story that is both funny and poignant, and also completely relatable. The story begins as forty something Bells Walker, a lawyer turned writer finds out she is pregnant and that her young......more

Goodreads review by Mackenzie - PhDiva Books on April 14, 2021

I am a fan of Lea Geller’s since I read her first book, Trophy Life. I was so excited for the release of her second novel, The Truth and Other Hidden Things and if I’m honest, I think it is even better than her first book! Clever, funny, heart-warming, and full of depth—this is the sort of book that......more

Goodreads review by Shaylan on November 25, 2020

4 stars for this fun and witty read! Bells Walker finds out on the same day that her IUD has failed and that her husband hasn't been given tenure where he teaches. This leads to them moving out of New York City with their two teenage children to Dutchess County, where her husband has secured a new j......more

Quotes

“This engrossing romp makes for delightfully voyeuristic commentary on wealthy upstate life.” —Publishers Weekly“A brave, bold, laugh-out-loud, heartwarming, nail-biting story of family life in these uncertain times. Bells Walker is so relatable, I wanted to yell advice to her as I read. A pure delight.” —Shelley Noble, New York Times bestselling author of Lucky’s Beach“What do you do when life throws a bunch of less than welcome surprises your way? If you’re Bells, the plucky protagonist of The Truth and Other Hidden Things, you make a string of questionable (if hilarious) choices…that land you exactly where you were always supposed to be. Lea Geller’s latest novel is a clever, witty, and insightful novel that just may inspire you to look at your own plot twists in a whole new light.” —Camille Pagán, bestselling author of This Won’t End Well