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!

1. Do you think the cover accurately reflects the book? If so, how do you think it is particularly evocative?
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. How does Arlo change because of the events of the novel? Did your opinion of him alter as the book progressed?
6. Which of the other characters had the greatest impact on you?
7. Saxon has a polarising and disruptive presence in the story. Did you find her a sympathetic figure?
8. What role does love play in this book? What kinds of love are explored and how do they drive different characters at pivotal moments?
9. What did you think of the ending? What might the future look like for Arlo and Clem?