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Ebook Details
  • 10/2020
  • 978-1-7333246-2-5 B08B4W8WDW
  • 494 pages
  • $4.95
Paperback Details
  • 10/2020
  • 978-1-7333246-0-1
  • 494 pages
  • $18.00
Madeleine Van Hecke
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Once You Know

Adult; General Fiction (including literary and historical); (Market)

Feisty, Irish-Catholic Colleen Moretti thrust the letter into the back of a drawer. Her plan: ignore the fault line until the tremors pass. But her husband’s betrayal is far worse than Colleen suspects. In this complex story of a family unraveling, both Colleen and her college-age daughter Rachel struggle to maintain their balance amidst feelings of love and loss, anger and betrayal. A gifted cellist, Rachel escapes into her music and her campus life, including her burgeoning romance with her first real boyfriend. But her coming of age tale is fraught with complications from what’s happening in her family. In her desperation to sustain hope, Colleen turns a blind eye to Rachel’s struggles. Instead, she clutches to her faith that preaches forgiveness and to the tender memories that preserve her image of the man she has known her husband to be. Mixed in this soup is eight-year-old Izzy, whom both Colleen and Rachel try to protect from the fallout of this conflict. With two daughters caught in the middle of a crumbling marriage, one who would love to see her father cut out of their lives and the other who would be crushed to lose him, Colleen is trapped in a no-win situation. This tense, emotional women’s fiction story traces Colleen’s journey as she comes to grips with an impossible situation in which, most painful of all, she must confront her own hand in what transpired.
Reviews
BlueInk Reviews

"... an absorbing and cathartic read."

Foreword Clarion Reviews

“Once You Know is a complex, gripping novel about how that which is unacknowledged can do the most damage.”

Indie Reader

Madeleine Van Hecke's remarkable novel, Once You Know, asks many insightful questions, continually adding new sober layers to an astonishingly complex and relevant subject.

Kirkus Reviews

"A searing but sensitive look at recovery from irreversible harm."

Self Publishing Review

"A gripping work of women’s fiction. Once You Know is evocatively written from the dual viewpoints of Rachel and her mother. The novel is incredibly strong due to these distinct character portraits – characters vividly portrayed with unique motives and pain, but drawn together by the bonds of family. This is a harrowing story with very difficult subject matter, and Van Hecke crafts this complex dynamic with nuance and commendable subtlety. At the end of the day it’s a story that will stay with you long after the last page has been read." Self-Publishing Review

Formats
Ebook Details
  • 10/2020
  • 978-1-7333246-2-5 B08B4W8WDW
  • 494 pages
  • $4.95
Paperback Details
  • 10/2020
  • 978-1-7333246-0-1
  • 494 pages
  • $18.00
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