The Truth in a Lie
Published on 18. June 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
260 pages
978-1-912855-94-0 (ISBN)
Description
Secrets and lies can be so destructive - especially when you lie to yourself
Charlotte Preece, a successful writer, moves to a riverside apartment after breaking up with her lover. She feels guilty when the upheaval so disturbs her student daughter, Kate, that she fails her first-year exams. Charlotte is then called to the bedside of her ailing mother and has to drive through heavy snow to reach the hospital. She's astonished when Duncan, her ex-husband, braves the treacherous conditions to join her. Is he being supportive, or does he have other motives? And then the two of them are snowed in together...
'The Truth in a Lie' is a novel that explores the complex relationships between mothers and daughters, wives and husbands. It is a story of love, loyalty, betrayal and the damage done by untold secrets. A must for fans of Maggie O'Farrell, Ann Patchett and Sally Rooney.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
332 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912855-94-0 (9781912855940)
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As a writer, Jan is always keen to challenge herself. Her first published novels - the three volumes that make up The Eldísvík Trilogy - are Nordic noir thrillers set fifty years in the future in a Scandinavian city where the rule of law comes under threat from the criminal cartels that control the badlands surrounding it.
Her fourth novel - 'Too Many Heroes' - is, by contrast, a period romantic thriller set in the early 1950s - a story of an illicit love affair that angers the mobsters controlling London's East End.
Jan's fifth novel: 'Towards the Vanishing Point' is also set primarily in the 1950s and depicts an enduring friendship between two women that is put to the test when one of them falls under the spell of a sinister charmer.
'The Truth in a Lie', Jan's latest novel and the first with a contemporary setting.