When Alina’s son, Fin, traces his long-absent birth father, it’s the catalyst for decades of secrets to implode in Alina’s neatly ordered life.
With the sudden appearance of another old flame, Rory, and the ever-present pull of a very different life in Bangladesh, she’s left reeling.

Three relationships, all of them built on half-truths. All Alina can truly be sure of, is that you can choose your family, you just can’t choose who they will turn out to be.

A compelling story of family, secrets, identity, and a reminder that love and life can surprise you… right until the very end.

Anne Hamilton co-founded a UK based charity, Bhola’s Children, supporting a home and school in Bangladesh for disabled children and remains a trustee today. She has been sharing her time between the UK and Bangladesh for the past 21 years, which inspired both her memoir and most recent novel, The Almost Truth. The unpublished manuscript for The Almost Truth was the winner of the Irish Novel Fair, and a short story adaptation of it is included in an Edinburgh Charity anthology, The People’s City, titled "The Finally Tree." Anne’s first novel, a travel memoir titled A Blonde Bengali Wife, was published in 2010 and based on her experience in Bangladesh. All money earned from A Blonde Bengali Wife goes direct to the charity, Bhola’s Children.