To Tell You the Truth

Name: To Tell You the Truth
Author: Leonard Merrick
ISBN: 9781836103677

Author: Leonard Merrick
Read by: Eloise Fairfax
Language: English
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
ISBN: 9781836103677
Published: 10 April 2026
Imprint: Sovereign

artistic ambition
pianist protagonist
Paris setting
moral dilemma
personal sacrifice
poverty and struggle
self-discovery
responsibility
emotional conflict
pursuit of success

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Description

To Tell You the Truth by Leonard Merrick follows Marie Lamande, a gifted pianist who leaves her provincial life for Paris in pursuit of artistic success. Struggling with poverty and limited opportunities, she becomes entangled in a moral dilemma after a tragic event. As ambition and responsibility collide, the novel explores truth, sacrifice, and the cost of personal desire.

Author

Leonard Merrick (1864–1939) was the English novelist other novelists kept recommending. Joseph Conrad admired him; so did a generation that valued craft over noise. Merrick wrote of theatre people, money worries, and the almost-made-it — characters who can see success and cannot quite grasp it. His prose is professional in the best sense: polished, observant, and quietly devastating.

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