We have 5 × 10 copies of Nick Lake’s twisty thriller to give away in exchange for reviews, so apply from your reading group now! From the Printz Award winning and Carnegie Medal shortlisted author of In Darkness.
People you love can lie to you for the very best of reasons.
Maybe they want to protect you.
Maybe they want to hide a terrible secret of their own.
Maybe they just love you so much they’ll do anything, ANYTHING, for you.
Maybe they’re just liars.
Shelby Cooper is a young woman who thinks she knows her own life. She is profoundly deaf and protected from the outside world by her mother. A mother who only wants to keep her daughter safe, wrapped in a world of home schooling, ice-cream dinners and film nights. Because anything could happen, to a young woman like Shelby. Anything.
When Shelby gets knocked down by a car, it’s not just her leg that’s broken: Shelby’s world is shattered. Her mother turns up to collect Shelby and drives them both off into the night, like it’s the beginning of a surprise road trip. But this is a road trip that will lead to a devastating truth. One that will cause Shelby’s life to veer wildly off course.
There Will Be Lies is a compulsive thriller filled with twists. In it Nick Lake has created a mystery that grows darker as Shelby shines a light on her life. As compelling as any psychological thriller There Will Be Lies puts the reader right beside Shelby as she searches for the truth, and surprises them with the reality that sometimes the ones we love the most are the cleverest liars.
Truth and lies collide in this superb thriller for readers of Gone Girl, Sophie McKenzie and S.J. Watson. This book will appeal to Young Adult readers and beyond.
‘The book moves grippingly from revelation to revelation…a clever and immersive thriller’ – Guardian
