The Lies You Told
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- USD 11.99
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- USD 11.99
Publisher Description
From the acclaimed author of Blood Orange, a dark new psychological thriller about the perfect mother, the perfect wife, the perfect family -- and the perfect murder.
In the playground it's the law of the jungle
But at the school gate, there are no rules at all...
When Sadie Roper moves back to London, she's determined to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. First, she needs to get her daughter settled into a new school-one of the most exclusive in the city. Next, she's going to get back the high-flying criminal barrister career she sacrificed for marriage ten years earlier. But nothing goes quite as planned. The school is not very welcoming newcomers, her daughter hasn't made any friends yet and the other mothers are as fiercely competitive as their children. Sadie immediately finds herself on the outside as she navigates the fraught politics of the school gate.
But the tide starts to turn as Sadie begins to work on a scandalous, high-profile case that's the perfect opportunity to prove herself again, even though a dangerous flirtation threatens to cloud her professional judgment. And when Liza, queen of the school moms, befriends Sadie, she draws her into the heart of the world from which she was previously excluded. Soon Sadie and her family start to thrive, but does this close new friendship prevent her from seeing the truth? Sadie may be keeping her friends close, but what she doesn't know is that her enemies are closer still...
Dark, addictive and compelling, The Lies You Told is a compulsive psychological thriller from a master storyteller.
"An extremely well-written and unsettling novel . . . Full of intrigue and menace, it creeps up on you until that final explosive twist. A great read" -- Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times author of The Silent Patient
"I read The Lies You Told in two days, barely able to turn the pages fast enough. It's spare and taut, the sense of wrongness building in chilling, skillfully written layers, with a jaw dropping last-line twist." -- Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of The Family Upstairs
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sadie Roper, the narrator of this engrossing psychological thriller from Tyce (Blood Orange), returns to her native London, along with her 11-year-old daughter, Robin, after she and her husband break up in Brooklyn. The provisions of Sadie's late mother's will state that she can claim a small inheritance and her childhood home only if she sends Robin to Asham Girls School, the same school Sadie attended. Despite the bullying Sadie endured at Asham, she agrees to the will's terms and enrolls Robin. Robin's new schoolmates are mean, but the girls' highly competitive mothers are worse. When Robin goes missing, the police arrest a mentally unstable mother on suspicion of kidnapping. Meanwhile, Sadie returns to the job as a criminal defense lawyer she gave up 10 years earlier for marriage. In her emotionally vulnerable state, she becomes dangerously attracted to a handsome teacher accused of molesting a student. More than one suspicious death raises the ante as multiple twists keep the pages turning to the satisfying conclusion. Readers are sure to look forward to Tyce's next.
