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The Lies You Told: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Blood Orange Hardcover – 27 October 2020
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- Publisher : Wildfire; 1st edition (27 October 2020)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1472252780
- ISBN-13 : 978-1472252784
- Dimensions : 15.8 x 3.8 x 23.8 cm
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With The Lies You Told, Harriet Tyce proves the success of Blood Orange was no one-off. An extremely well-written and unsettling novel, it tells the story of Sadie and her daughter Robin, and their struggles to establish themselves in the law courts and schoolyard respectively. A slow-burning mystery, full of intrigue and menace, it creeps up on you until that final explosive twist. A great read. ― Alex Michaelides
A breathless read - with a shocker of an ending! ― Shari Lapena, bestselling author of The Couple Next Door
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, skilfully written layers, with a jaw dropping last line twist. ― Lisa Jewell, author of The Family Upstairs
Every bit as intriguing, well-written and addictive as its predecessor ― Sara Collins, award-winning author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton
An absolute page turner with a twist you'll read twice because you can't believe you missed it ― John Marrs, author of What Lies Between Us
A clever, immersive read. Harriet's writing is beautifully lucid and I found the story really compelling, giving access to the complexities of motherhood as well as the dangers Sadie faces ― Kate Rhodes, author of Burnt Island
Totally addictive - I was gripped ― Sophie Hannah, author of Haven’t They Grown
A twisty page-turner from the author of Blood Orange ― Sarah Pinborough, author of Behind Her Eyes
A gripping and intelligent thriller ― Stylist
With lots of twists and turns, this thriller is impossible to put down ― Independent
A breathless read - with a shocker of an ending! ― Shari Lapena, bestselling author of The Couple Next Door
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, skilfully written layers, with a jaw dropping last line twist. ― Lisa Jewell, author of The Family Upstairs
Every bit as intriguing, well-written and addictive as its predecessor ― Sara Collins, award-winning author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton
An absolute page turner with a twist you'll read twice because you can't believe you missed it ― John Marrs, author of What Lies Between Us
A clever, immersive read. Harriet's writing is beautifully lucid and I found the story really compelling, giving access to the complexities of motherhood as well as the dangers Sadie faces ― Kate Rhodes, author of Burnt Island
Totally addictive - I was gripped ― Sophie Hannah, author of Haven’t They Grown
A twisty page-turner from the author of Blood Orange ― Sarah Pinborough, author of Behind Her Eyes
A gripping and intelligent thriller ― Stylist
With lots of twists and turns, this thriller is impossible to put down ― Independent
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Fans of Apple Tree Yard and The Girl on the Train will love the atmosphere of clenched ambiguity Tyce sustains so well. - GuardianHarriet Tyce brings a new layer of visceral, addictive dark to domestic noir . . . At once shocking and riveting, I simply couldn't stop reading. Bravo - Behind Her EyesA classy thriller with complex and compelling characters - I See YouCombines sharp spare prose with a gloriously twisted plot - I read this in one heart-pounding, furiously angry sitting - Little DeathsBlood Orange is destined to be the debut that everyone is talking about in 2019. Dark, original and utterly compelling, I could not put it down. And what a twist at the end! - Then She Was GoneThis thriller breathes new life into the domestic noir genre and grips until the final page - Daily ExpressBlood Orange is glittering and fierce and resolutely unsentimental, a glorious bonfire of a marriage thriller - Irish TimesComplex and menacing, this is a very impressive debut - Observer
From the Publisher
Harriet Tyce grew up in Edinburgh and studied English at Oxford University before doing a law conversion course at City University. She practised as a criminal barrister in London for nearly a decade, and recently completed an MA in Creative Writing - Crime Fiction at the University of East Anglia. She lives in north London. Her first novel, Blood Orange, published in 2019 to huge critical acclaim and her latest novel, The Lies You Told, published in summer 2020.
About the Author
Harriet Tyce grew up in Edinburgh and studied English at Oxford University before doing a law conversion course at City University. She practised as a criminal barrister in London for nearly a decade, and recently completed an MA in Creative Writing - Crime Fiction at the University of East Anglia. She lives in north London. Her first novel, Blood Orange, published in 2019 to huge critical acclaim and her latest novel, The Lies You Told, published in summer 2020.
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While The Lies You Told has some strong and thrilling elements, I have mixed feelings about the story as a whole. Another reader may feel differently.
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Franco
2.0 out of 5 stars
What a let down.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 August 2020Verified Purchase
I can't understand the glowing reviews for this book, what a complete let down after Blood Orange which was good. Nothing happened in the story line except for the continuously ridiculous scenario with mothers at the school gates bullying each other. How many times was the main character near to fighting back but just didn't and how many times did she and her daughter have pizza for dinner? A lot of repetitions and not much else. I am annoyed that I paid money for this.
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linda shaw
1.0 out of 5 stars
very disappointing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 August 2020Verified Purchase
I absolutely loved Blood Orange. Its hard to believe this is from the same author. I dont want to spoil the storyline with specifics but many parts of the storyline were unbelievable and ridiculous. The remainder was utterly boring. Very disappointing follow up to a brilliant debut
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Clare Empson
5.0 out of 5 stars
wow incredible follow up!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 July 2020Verified Purchase
I loved Harriet Tyce's first novel Blood Orange and was keen to read The Lies You Told. Wow basically. I bought it in the morning and couldn't put it down until I'd finished it the same night. That's how good it is. It tells the story of a newly single mum who enrols her daughter at a highly competitive toxic London school. The pushy school gate mums are the worst of their kind and captured brilliantly. All the same ingredients are here - fantastic writing, a gripping plot and characters whose lives you become completely immersed in. Couldn't recommend it more.
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Kay W
5.0 out of 5 stars
***MUST READ THRILLER ***
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 July 2020Verified Purchase
I was excited for this release after reading Blood Orange it's remained in my top 5 for 2020 upto now and I have no doubt it will stay there.
Harriet's style of writing is perfection in building suspense. Not giving too much away, but just enough to keep you reading and not sleeping. I love it, I spend so much time questioning why, whats that, when was this that the reading is mind filling and stopping after a chapter proves difficult.
A brilliant story of Sadie and her daughter Robin and the return to Sadies childhood home after fleeing America.
Absolutely epic story, you never know anything until towards the end and even then it's this or that. I literally said wow out loud when I found out what happened.
Amazing book, a must read and it's high up in my top 5 along with Blood Orange.
#theliesyoutold #harriettyce #bookreview #2020books #top5books2020
Harriet's style of writing is perfection in building suspense. Not giving too much away, but just enough to keep you reading and not sleeping. I love it, I spend so much time questioning why, whats that, when was this that the reading is mind filling and stopping after a chapter proves difficult.
A brilliant story of Sadie and her daughter Robin and the return to Sadies childhood home after fleeing America.
Absolutely epic story, you never know anything until towards the end and even then it's this or that. I literally said wow out loud when I found out what happened.
Amazing book, a must read and it's high up in my top 5 along with Blood Orange.
#theliesyoutold #harriettyce #bookreview #2020books #top5books2020
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Mrs S J Sansom
5.0 out of 5 stars
A tense, oppressive, psychological thriller
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 August 2020Verified Purchase
I read Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce almost as soon as it was released, so I was delighted when Amazon politely tipped me off to the publication of her second book, The Lies You Told. It went straight into my Kindle library, and I devoured it in five sittings. True to form, this is a dark, twisted psychological thriller that’ll have your skin tingling with disquietude from the first page to the last.
The Lies You Told is an intelligent, dark psychological thriller that will grasp you unapologetically by the eyeballs from the first page to the last. Two main stories propel you forwards with startling compulsion; the nails-down-a-chalkboard school gates events will keep you on edge through out the book, whilst the moral outrage of the courtroom drama unfolds in parallel. There’s no let-up to the suspense between these two narratives, as the question about Andrew and what really happened between him and Sadie fills every last pocket of fresh air.
Harriet Tyce has written yet another complex, discomfiting domestic thriller whose acutely-observed and relatable characters draw you in, whilst the gloriously omnipresent sense of menace keeps you unnerved and on edge. The book is split into two parts. Part one is tense and oppressive, punctuated by short flash-chapters redolent of a fever-dream; confused and confusing. Part two delivers the shocks - the story you thought you had a firm grasp of in part one suddenly twists out of your grasp, with a chilling finale that brings to mind the quote: “keep your fiends close …”
In her acknowledgements at the end of the book the author refers to this as the ‘difficult second novel’. Admittedly she set the bar extremely high with Blood Orange, but she needn’t have worried, The Lies You Told will be the must-read psych-thriller of the month, if not the year.
The Lies You Told is an intelligent, dark psychological thriller that will grasp you unapologetically by the eyeballs from the first page to the last. Two main stories propel you forwards with startling compulsion; the nails-down-a-chalkboard school gates events will keep you on edge through out the book, whilst the moral outrage of the courtroom drama unfolds in parallel. There’s no let-up to the suspense between these two narratives, as the question about Andrew and what really happened between him and Sadie fills every last pocket of fresh air.
Harriet Tyce has written yet another complex, discomfiting domestic thriller whose acutely-observed and relatable characters draw you in, whilst the gloriously omnipresent sense of menace keeps you unnerved and on edge. The book is split into two parts. Part one is tense and oppressive, punctuated by short flash-chapters redolent of a fever-dream; confused and confusing. Part two delivers the shocks - the story you thought you had a firm grasp of in part one suddenly twists out of your grasp, with a chilling finale that brings to mind the quote: “keep your fiends close …”
In her acknowledgements at the end of the book the author refers to this as the ‘difficult second novel’. Admittedly she set the bar extremely high with Blood Orange, but she needn’t have worried, The Lies You Told will be the must-read psych-thriller of the month, if not the year.
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