Based on a True Story: All Families Have Secrets.. but It’s the Lies That Can Kill

The compelling new novel about power, money and lies from the author of Anatomy of a Scandal.A lavish 70th birthday party. A body found on a stormlashed beach. And a secret that someone is dying to tell...Famed children’s author Dame Eleanor Kingman has summoned her family and friends to her exquisite manor house on the cliffs. They're celebrating her birthday – and her latest number one bestseller in her series of books based on a mother fox and her cubs.But the night before the party, Eleanor receives an email: an email that threatens to expose the lie she’s kept up for over half a century.Someone knows her secret. Is it her estranged literary agent? Is it her ex-husband, to whom she no longer speaks? Is it the nanny she fired all those years ago, who always did have a knack for storytelling? Or is it one of her three daughters, all of whom have a stake in the publishing empire she has built...With a TV crew arriving to film a documentary of her life, Eleanor needs to find out who sent the email – and preserve her multimillion -pound career.But when push comes to shove, and it's time to tell the truth – will anyone actually believe her?