We hope these questions help guide your group's discussion of this astonishing, emotional epic. Please don’t read these questions unless you’ve finished Tell Me Something True – you don’t want to risk ruining any surprises!
- Do you think the cover accurately reflects the book? If so, how do you think it is particularly evocative?
- Was the prologue effective for you? Was it intriguing or did it reveal too much about events that were yet to unfold for the reader?
- Tell Me Something True has a central mystery that needs solving, but the story seems to defy genre by containing so many other elements. How would you describe the novel?
- This is Michael Robotham’s first Australian-set novel. Did his descriptions of Yulara conjure up small-town Australia in the 1980s? Have you ever visited or lived in places like this?
- How does Arlo change because of the events of the novel? Did your opinion of him alter as the book progressed?
- Which of the other characters had the greatest impact on you?
- Saxon has a polarising and disruptive presence in the story. Did you find her a sympathetic figure?
- What role does love play in this book? What kinds of love are explored and how do they drive different characters at pivotal moments?
- What did you think of the ending? What might the future look like for Arlo and Clem?
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Tell Me Something True
The astonishing, emotional epic from Michael Robotham: a mystery, a coming-of-age tale and a love story wrapped into one, set against the simmering tensions of a small Australian town.
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