What if the photos that you took showed what has happening within your heart? You know the secrets you are trying to hide. What would you do with those photos? The Camera Never Lies by David Rawlings is a book that explores that very topic.

We all have things that we are trying to hide. We are hiding them from ourselves and from other people. That is exactly what Daniel is doing in The Camera Never Lies. Life is falling apart but he is not ready to admit it. He inherits a camera from his grandfather. Someone is taking photos and when Daniel sees the photos there are things in there that reveal the truth. Will he admit the truth or continue to hide it?

One interesting thought in the book is that each time Daniel went to develop the photos the price went up. Why? Because it gets more and more expensive to hide the truth.

I loved the book and it did give me a bit to ponder. What would be added to my photos if they were taken with the “camera that never lies?” It also gives a word picture to talk through with people as we talk about what is really in our hearts and how we work to hide it.

One disappointment in the book was there is no reference to the Bible. Oh, there was the phrase “the truth will set you free” but it was not as a quote from the Bible but just a saying. The Bible speaks so much about truth that missing this in the book is a big disappointment. Without the foundation of the Bible it is just a book about trying hard to be honest with those around us. We need to understand truth from the Bible.

Daniel is a marriage counselor and his own marriage is struggling. He doesn’t want to go to another counseling centre and his wife doesn’t want to go to someone within his own centre. What if they went to their church? What if the counselor from church pointed them to the truth in God’s Word?

 

About the Book

Book:  The Camera Never Lies

Author: David Rawlings

Genre: General fiction/allegory/magical realism

Release Date: December 3, 2019

David Rawlings, the author of The Baggage Handler, returns with another probing story: what would you do if your secrets were revealed to those around you?

Daniel Whiteley is a successful couples counselor who regularly puts families back together, helping them face up to the things in life they hide. But his own marriage is falling apart.

His wife, Kelly, knows Daniel is hiding something from her, but she doesn’t dare probe for fear her own secrets will be revealed.

When his grandfather dies, Daniel inherits an old SLR camera from a time when cameras pointed away from the person taking the photograph. On the camera is an inscription: “Use this camera wisely and remember, regardless of the picture you think you took, the camera never lies.”

When Daniel first uses his new camera he finds someone has already filled the roll of film. Annoyed, he processes the film and finds photos of a secret that he’s been hiding from his wife and daughter. He has no idea who took them.

Now every time he uses the camera, the photographs reveal another secret about himself he is desperate to keep as well as those of his wife, which he is desperate to uncover.

 

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About the Author

David Rawlings is an Australian author, and a sports-mad father of three who loves humor and a clever turn of phrase. Over a 25-year career, he has put words on the page to put food on the table, developing from sports journalism and copywriting to corporate communication. Now in fiction, he entices readers to look deeper into life with stories that combine the everyday with a sense of the speculative, addressing the fundamental questions we all face.

Read an Excerpt

Read an excerpt of The Camera Never Lies here.

 

 

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