Unspoken

Unspoken

A heart-warming, dramatic family saga. Unspoken is a tale of secrets, love, betrayal and revenge. 

Unspoken means something that cannot be uttered aloud. Unspoken is the dark secret a woman must keep, for life. 

Alice is fast approaching her one hundredth birthday and she is dying. Her strange, graphic dreams of ghostly figures trying to pull her into a tunnel of blinding light are becoming more and more vivid and terrifying. Alice knows she only has a short time left and is desperate to unburden herself of a dark secret, one she has lived with for eighty years. 

Jessica, a journalist, is her great granddaughter and a mirror image of a young Alice. They share dreadful luck in the types of men that come into their lives. 

Alice decides to share her terrible secret with Jessica and sends her to the attic to retrieve a set of handwritten notebooks detailing her young life during the late 1930s. Following the death of her invalid mother and her father’s decline into depression and alcoholism, she is forced, at 18 to take control of the farm. On her birthday, she meets Frank, a man with a drink problem and a violent temper. 

When Frank’s abusive behaviour steps up a level. Alice seeks solace in the arms of her smooth, ‘gangster lawyer’ Godfrey, and when Frank discovers the couple together, he vows to get his revenge.

Unspoken. A tale that spans two eras and binds two women, born eighty years apart.

"Jessica Belmont

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2020

Review:

Unspoken by T.A. Belshaw is a wonderful family saga. It was excellently written, with intrigue from beginning to end.

I love when it is easy to connect with characters. These characters were so realistic and easy to get to know. The dual timeline was executed perfectly, which allowed the reader to learn about the characters.

The attention to detail is fantastic. I really enjoyed Unspoken and highly recommend it. It is heart warming and full of drama and love."