The Language of Secrets - Dianne Dixon

Synopsis:
From a fresh and exciting new voice in women's fiction, The Language of Secrets unflinchingly examines the lifelong repercussions of a father's betrayal.
Justin Fisher has a successful career as the manager of a luxury hotel, a lovely wife, and a charming young son. While all signs point to a bright future, Justin can no longer ignore the hole in his life left by his estranged family. When he finally gathers the courage to reconnect with his troubled past, Justin is devastated to learn that his parents have passed away. And a visit to the cemetery brings the greatest shock of all—next to the graves of his father and mother sits a smaller tombstone for a three-year-old boy: a boy named Thomas Justin Fisher.
What follows is an extraordinary journey as Justin struggles with issues of his own identity and pieces together the complex and heartbreaking truth about his family. With great skill and care, Dianne Dixon explores the toll that misunderstandings, blame, and resentment can take on a family. But it is the intimate details of family life—a mother's lullaby for her son, a father's tragic error in judgment—that make this novel so exceptional and an absolute must for reading groups everywhere.
The Language of Secrets is the story of an unspeakable loss born of human frailty and an ultimate redemption born of human courage.


©2010


My Opinion:
This story started out a little slow, but quickly picked up and grabbed my full attention. Enough so, that I finished the book in a few hours.
I felt a connection to Caroline in the respect of being a mother. I would be just as tormented with the loss of a child. What really gets me, is her strength to continue in that marriage, when she knows what a man her husband really is. She is a better woman than me, because I couldn't have stayed.
To evoke this emotion from me, as a reader, takes a very talented writer. So Dianne Dixon, I tip my hat to you. Well done! LOVE the twist-ending!
(4/5)


~I received a copy from DoubleDay Books. I was not compensated for my opinion.~