PROMISE NOT TO TELL, by Jennifer McMahon

(originally posted on April 13, 2007)

McMahon's debut novel brilliantly captures what it is to be an awkward, painful child in the midst of turbulent events that only become clear many years later. This is a story of secrets unburied, friendships cracked and reunited and most of all, of the lonely, prickly, oddly lovable Potato Girl who is damn near impossible to forget.