Samantha Grosser

Here’s the blurb for the book I’m working on now:

Everyone has a secret.

For the first time in twelve years, Lorraine Gardiner has forgotten her wedding anniversary. A simple lapse of memory or the first hint of deeper trouble?

When husband Paul unravels the secret of Lorraine’s affair with the man next door, the consequences for the family are devastating. Forced to move far away from their neighbour, Stuart Freeman, and far away from their beloved Sydney beaches, they head for Paul’s native England to begin again.

But Paul has secrets of his own in England, a past he had hoped to leave behind him years ago.Struggling to repair their marriage and make a new life in England, they are desperately homesick, and it is many months before they finally start to feel at home.

Then two unrelated events take place that will throw their fragile relationship into further jeopardy. A face from Paul’s past appears, a face he has tried to forget. Terrified that Lorraine might now discover the truth from someone else, Paul decides he must tell her himself. But by then Lorraine’s parents have invited her home for their fortieth wedding anniversary. Should he still admit to the truth? And should he trust her to be that close to Stuart Freeman again, even for a short time?

Moving back and forth across the continents in an intense and emotionally compelling narrative, After the Twelfth raises significant questions about the nature of honesty and deception, and explores the legacy of keeping secrets from the people we love.