The Hidden Part — Stan Barstow

The secret life of a rich man in a small town.

Tom Simpkins, one-time mayor and wealthy widower, leads a simple, open life. Or so it seems.

When his neighbor Sid Moffat dies, the skeletons in the closet begin to rattle. Sid had been the husband of Norma, Tom's secret mistress for some twenty years. Now, suddenly, violent hidden emotions are stirred --- in Tom, in Norma, in the people close to them.

One of these people is Shirley, Norma's daughter. She is about to discover that her real father is a rich man --- and very much alive...