"Sherbrooke’s vivid prose transported me back to high school, complete with searing memories that can be at once technicolor, yet blurry. Anyone who lived through the 80s likely has had to revisit that era's rules and re-examine what we thought we knew. This book asks important questions about what we as women are forced to carry and what it takes to lay those burdens down."

—Alisyn Camerota, award-winning journalist and author of 

Combat Love and Amanda Wakes Up

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“Astute, arresting, and profound, This Much is True is your mother’s story and your father’s, your daughter’s and your son’s, your sister’s and your brother’s. So many women have been waiting to read this novel and so many men need to read it.”

—Susan Donovan Bernhard, Author of Winter Loon and Westerly

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“Packed with relatable emotion…Brace yourself for an ending that is as surprising as it is deeply satisfying.” 

—Lynne Reeves, author of The Dangers of an Ordinary Night

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A mother faces an impossible dilemma as her daughter’s future hangs in the balance.

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On her fifty-eighth birthday, Veronica Harmon feels blessed—with a fulfilling veterinary career, a wonderful marriage and three grown children, her youngest newly engaged and celebrating her first solo art show that very night. But when Veronica meets her daughter’s future in-laws, Ted and Belinda, who’ve flown across the country for the show, she is shocked to recognize Ted from an incident during high school that changed the trajectory of her life. Having never told a soul about that night, Veronica’s past reemerges like a live grenade.

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Over the course of a pre-arranged weekend at the Harmon’s home intended to better acquaint the two families, Veronica unearths troubling memories, questions her own recollections and grapples with the impossible. If she quietly welcomes this man as a permanent part of her family she will be forced to live with a devastating lie, but if she reveals their shared history, she will expose her private shame and destroy her daughter’s future. Just when she thinks there is no viable solution, she has an epiphany that flips the script on what it means to be a survivor and the choices that are hers to make.
 

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“Women of my generation have been waiting for This Much is True ever since we watched Sixteen Candles as teenagers and shifted uncomfortably in our seats. Katherine Sherbrooke’s Veronica embodies our confused silence, makes sense of it, and then asks what happens if we refocus our collective lens and put all the pieces where they really belong.”

— Michelle Lerner, Author of Ring, longlisted for the

Aspen Words Literary Prize

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“In this artfully crafted novel, a woman grapples with a long-hidden secret that threatens to upend everything she loves. This Much Is True confronts sexual assault with unflinching clarity, while Sherbrooke skillfully weaves moments of tenderness with piercing outrage. For so many reasons, this story—and this reckoning—will stay with me for a long time.”

— JJ Elliot, author of There Are No Rules for This

 

“This Much is True is a profound meditation on the psychological gravity of our earliest choices and how the shadows of youth can stretch across decades...Ultimately, Sherbrooke's story is a stirring exploration of the courage required to dismantle long-held defenses created in our past in search of an authentic, redemptive future.”

—Katrin Schumann, best selling author of The Forgotten Hours

and Terrible Beauty

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