The Truth According to Us
- ISBN-10
- 0385342950
- ISBN-13
- 9780385342957
- Series
- The Truth According to Us
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 528
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-06-14
- Publisher
- Dial Press Trade Paperback
- Author
- Annie Barrows
Description
Miss Layla Beck, the daughter of a powerful Senator from Delaware refuses to marry the gentleman her father has chosen for her and is forced to get a job working for the FWP to write the first official account of Macedonian History. Her notions of real life--the social whirl of Newport and New York--are totally upended and she despairs in rooming with the overly eccentric Romeyn family in such a small backwater town. The Romeyn family is a fixture in the town, their identity tied to its knotty history. Layla enters their lives and lights a match to the family veneer and a truth comes to light that will change each of their lives forever in deeply personal and powerful ways.
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