Emily is a midwife, who made a mistake. Running away from her problems, she goes to her father's house, which is her safe place, or so she thought. When she knocks on the 93 year old Harold's door, she's met face to face with Françoise, who is her father's care taker.
Both women already don't get along from the moment they met, but it all seems to get worse when they are suspicious of each others activities. And this is where the good part in book ends.
'till Harold dies author has left reader to guess what actually happened, did anyone kill him or was it a natural death. But let me tell you, the ending of the book is so disappointing, that I actually wish that one of the sisters would have killed their father, just for the sake of it because it would have made more sense. And Emily getting back together with her high school sweetheart? Really? I feel like the author got bored or didn't have enough time to properly finish the book, so she just wrote something so you could say that the book is finished.

What started off so well and interesting, ended in a disppointment. :(

I like Jane Corry a lot and this book went above and beyond my expectations. I feel like she really helps you get to know and care about all her characters and weaves the plot so intricately that you feel like you’re personally involved. This one was truly unputdownable! Loved it

I found this book quite difficult to get into, but once I got used to the characters, they became more rewarding to read.
Harold Gentle is old and sick. His daughter Emily is a midwife in London, so he advertises for a carer and Francoise, a beautiful and enigmatic Frenchwoman arrives. Emily and Francoise clash, and they both come across as stubborn and difficult, although they both care for Harold.
This story is interspersed with Harold's account of his time in France during the second world war, when he was only 15. He returned with PTSD, and is easily triggered to become angry and violent.
However, the part of the story that I liked is the way that the relationship between Emily and Francoise develops, despite themselves. They are both jealous of each other's relationship with Harold, but both are kind underneath, so switch between trying to set each other up, and also helping each other.
The last chapters are gorgeous, and make the book worthwhile.

Jane Corry has a way of writing suspense stories and this one is no different. This will have you guessing until the very end.

Thank you netgalley for my ARC

I love Jane Corry’s imaginative storytelling. She has an extraordinary skill of portraying ordinary people who by chance or design have a remarkable story to tell. Emily is a busy midwife who one day makes a mistake at work. She is suspended and also has an accident and hits her head. Feeling utterly miserable she returns to her home village to see her elderly father and to her absolute shock finds a strange French woman caring for him. The woman, Francoise, seems in total control of the house and her father and Emily feels very vulnerable. Suspicious of her motives, Emily is totally untrusting of Francoise and sets about finding out what she is after. As Emily’s life is spiraling out of control with each day bringing more misery, her only bright spark is meeting up with her old boyfriend. As the days progress and the story is told from different perspectives, it is difficult to know who is telling the truth and who has the most to hide. This twisty story gradually unravels to reveal all it’s truths with a satisfying ending.

A book about mistakes and secrets.

Emily has made a terrible mistake and un her role as midwife, it could truly be life or death. On returning to her father's home in Cornwall, she finds her elderly father has employed a carer, Francoise. Beautiful, clever and perhaps a little devious, Francoise soon causes Emily to question her motives. What is drawing her to help her father so eagerly? Financial reward? Or perhaps something much more valuable.

This book certainly engages the reader, with three different 1st person narratives, including one of Harold, Emily's father, during the war and the decisions that changed his life forever. The intertwining stories give a perspective of events from different sides, creating an interesting window into the motives and viewpoint of each character.

The characters are carefully and believability developed and as a reader, you quickly build an understanding and engagement with each one as you learn more about their reasons and emotions.

An engaging read, one I'm very happy to recommend.

I reviewed an advanced review copy for free and I am leaving this review voluntarily. Thank you to Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.

I absolutely loved this book. I haven't read any of Jane Corry's books previously but having read this one would be tempted to do so.
For me, it had just the right amount of intrigue. Was Emily lying? Was Francoise? ... for a long time it just wasn't clear whether Francoise was out to get Emily's fathers money, what her motivations were. The interplay of Emily's thoughts and then Francoise's was excellent - highlighting that what we see from the outside can be very different to the reality of a person. It may feel to some that it was all tied up a little too nice and neatly at the end but after the death and upset of the earlier parts of the book I quite liked the happy ending. I am grateful to Netgalley to offering me the opportunity to read an advance copy.

We All Have Our Secrets begins with Emily delivering a baby in her role as a midwife in a London hospital which results in her suspension. After a fall from her bicycle during which she sustains a head injury, she gets a phone call from Harold, her elderly fathe,r asking her to visit him in Cornwall. When she arrives the door is opened by a stranger, Francoise, a Frenchwoman who says she is acting as a carer to Emily's father. But who is Francoise really and is she too close to Harold, pushing Emily away?

The story of Emily's strained relationship with her father and consequently with Francoise is complex and more so after Harold's death when Emily questions why her father has left his house to someone he has only known for a short time, and also whether his death was hastened. Then she herself becomes a suspect all the while knowing that she may be about to lose her midwifery status.

Both Emily and Francoise have their voices heard and the unravelling of Harold's life and the part Francoise played in it is very well portrayed. Not so sure about the love interest, which seemed superfluous. Many thanks to NetGalley and Penguin UK for the opportunity to read and review another excellent Jane Corry book.

A midwife delivers a baby her mind not totally on the task in hand. Summoned to an investigation she panics and heads for her family home. A young French girl is discovered acting as carer to the midwife’s father after leaving her homeland in questionable circumstances. . Stress, guilt and jealousy fuel an ongoing war of attrition with each vying for first place in the fathers affections. Each girl has a back story of distress, pain, and heartache linked to a need for an unconditional, loving father figure . A tangled series of incidents all linked to past indiscretions result in both of them summoned to give evidence in a serious police enquiry where the truth will out. Or yet again, maybe the truth will not and neither girl can be sure that justice will prevail. A story linking the after effects of WW2 to two families , their future happiness , and when nothing is as it seems and no one is who they seem. Occasionally drifting into hyperbole, with situations and emotions lacking authenticity. However putting scepticism aside, a fictional story of two people learning acceptance of the facts of their difficult past and moving towards acknowledgment of each othering there is any chance of a happy future . Many thanks to author, publisher and NetGalley for ARC.

Engaging and Intriguing book with good world building and character development, a pleasure to read, I would recommend this unreservedly

This was another great read from this author. I enjoyed the main concept of the storyline but I did find the whole character of the midwife and the mistakes made a little bit harrowing. I think the storyline was gripping and interesting and I would definitely recomend it.

Emily arrives at her father's house after one of the worse days of her life. A young French woman opens the door to her and says she is her father's carer. Knowing nothing about this Emily is very suspicious about the girl especially the way her father looks at her and surprisingly does what she tells him.
Her father won't speak to her about employing the girl and Emily becomes more suspicious.
Jane Corry writes a good suspense story and this one will have you guessing to the end. The characters are all believable and readable.

I did kind of enjoy this book and read it quite quickly. However that was really just to find out the ending, which I expected to be more exciting. I liked the story and the plot but I just didn’t like either of the main characters. I felt like I was waiting to find out about the inquiry for most of the book but it was really ignored for a long time.

Another brilliant book from Jane, like her other books, this one will keep you hooked and gripped and you won't be able to put the book down!

Emily , a midwife in London , makes a mistake at work that could possibly end in a fatality . She is called back to the hospital from home after finishing her shift . On the way back she is knocked off her bicycle by a car and receives a head injury . She decides to go home to recover , but keeps getting calls from the hospital to return for a meeting about the incident.
She then decides to return to her childhood home in Cornwall (Willowmead House) to stay with her father . On her return she finds her father has employed a french girl called Francoise in her early twenties as a carer .
Her father , Harold Gentle , is suffering from dementia and needs help but Emily thinks that Francoise is getting too close to her father , especially when she overhears gossip in the local shop that the 2 have been to the solicitor's office together . Suspecting that Francoise is after her father's money the two cannot get on especially when Harold gives Francoise items of his wife's jewellery . Harold dies and after his death there are suspicions he has had an overdose of his medication, both girls are viewed as suspects at first but they begin to bond after 2 family secrets come to light . All this mixed in with Harold's wartime memories as he is dying make this quite a good read.

I enjoyed this female-led story of secrets and lies.. Emily and Francoise, share a secret , but only one of them is aware of it. The pace of the reveals kept me gripped. The war sections seemed out of place at first and a little distracting, but are obviously necessary to the story. I have enjoyed Corry's previous books and look forward to her next.

Jane Corry specialises in secrets and lies and the damage they cause so, from the start, the title indicates that we are going to encounter a few of them!

Emily, the central character, starts off as a reliable midwife in London but quickly goes downhill after a few chance events and, within fifty pages, she’s as barmy as a box of frogs not opening letters from work, arguing with her sick dad’s carer who she thinks is after his money, falling out with her old boyfriend who she, mistakenly, thinks still loves his ex-wife and most of the people in the delightful little Cornish village where everyone knows everyone and gossip abounds.

The carer is mysterious, beautiful and French so she’s obviously called Françoise and, of course, she has a few secrets of her own and told a few porkies to get the job.

There’s a dog called Zorro so he can be mysterious as well, and a dodgy gardener who doesn’t trust Françoise but, then, who does? Unfortunately, it seems that the increasingly unwell dad dotes on her because he has his own secrets about his escapades in the Second World War and encounters with a French mademoiselle!

The plot gets more and more complicated because no one has an honest conversation and everyone either suspects what other people are thinking and planning, or confuses what they are doing. Then, more things happen to precipitate more disasters and more misunderstandings before Jane Corry unravels it all.

There is something weird about this process because this is not like in a detective novel where the clues were there all along if you only knew where to look. Instead, a series of unexpected events, red herrings and uncovered clues bring everything to a timely conclusion.

If you are fan of Jane Corry then this will be highly satisfying and you do have to admire how she keeps everything rolling along and most people, except for the dead ones, seem quite happy at the end. However, there were one too many coincidences for me, the French connection was all a bit of a cliché and if Emily had behaved more sensibly and asked the right questions from the start the book could have been a lot shorter.

Emily made a mistake, a mistake midwives can’t afford to make. Escaping to her dad’s home in Devon to regroup, she finds his dementia has been worsening and he has hired a carer. Francoise can’t believe that Emily would leave her struggling father, she would never do that if Harold was her own father. Each woman has secrets and one of them will kill to keep it that way.. ✨

I read this with @whatkelreads as we were both lucky enough to get this from @netgalley 📖 I have enjoyed Jane’s books previously and although this book started off well, I felt by the second half it got muddled. I couldn’t warm to any of the characters and at times wanted to shake Emily for her actions. Although this book is only a 3 🌟 for me, I look forward to reading more of Jane’s books in the future ✨

An interesting story which kept you guessing. The dual time line story had plenty of twists and turns.

I literally just put this down. It seemed very simple at the start but then started popping in a few twists - I really wasn’t sure for a while who the good guys and bad guys were in this and what their motivations were, whether there were scams afoot and who might be lying to who. I liked the flashbacks and the development of the main characters. The ending was satisfying - I won’t say how because I don’t want to spoil it. I enjoyed the book more as it went on because of the twists and I’d definitely read other books by this author.