‘Once You Know’
by Madeleine Van Hecke
Teaser Extract

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‘ONCE YOU KNOW‘ by MADELEINE VAN HECKE

TEASER TUESDAY EXTRACT

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CHAPTER 27

Colleen watched Izzy show Derek how to manipulate the pulleys at one of the water tables. Her bare feet on the artificial turf, Izzy told her dad, “You pull this rope and I pull the other one, then the water makes a funnel down here,” Derek patiently followed Izzy’s lead to navigate a ship through locks and dams, but Izzy kept mistiming the release of the water.

“Oh, Izzy!” Colleen protested, seeing water spray and a damp blot spread across the front of Izzy’s red t-shirt. Derek winked and splashed Izzy, soaking her even more. Then he pulled her, laughing, to the bank of hairdryers where children dried their clothes.

Izzy turned the hairdryer on her father. He pretended to be upset that she’d mussed his hair. Izzy giggled and flashed a smile at Colleen. When Derek chased Izzy around the water obstacle course, she twisted around to mist him with her squirt gun. Colleen thought of all the times she’d wondered how she could have been so blind to what Derek had been doing. The scene before her seemed like the answer to that question. When Izzy shot a spray of mist at her father, and then whooped at his pursuit, Colleen lifted her phone and captured the chase on film. Replaying it, she couldn’t help smiling. In a burst of optimism, Colleen forwarded the clip to Rachel with the text, Maybe we can get through this.

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My review is currently scheduled for 15th October 2020

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‘ONCE YOU KNOW‘ by MADELEINE VAN HECKE

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 unravelling, 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. Colleen finally realizes she can’t save her daughters, her marriage, and herself, so… who will she choose?

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