Upon hearing the premise for My Sister and Other Liars I was desperately eager to read the novel - and the author certainly didn't let me or my expectations down.

My Sister and Other Liars is based around Sam, a teenager plunged into the world of anorexia, institutionalised in the Bartlett Hospital on the Felixstowe coast in Suffolk. It soon becomes clear that Sam's illness is as a result of a deeper trauma, and the story becomes a case of a 'whodunnit' as the book moves on.

I was impressed by the amount of research that must have gone into the novel regarding Sam's eating disorder, which is an integral part of the book, not so much a cry for help, more an opportunity to grab whatever control the young woman can in a world where everything else is taken away from her, or denied to her.
The best novels are those in which the events can and do really happen and I found My Sister and Other Liars frighteningly true to life, encapsulating events that happen all too often and are kept buried and hidden, and the reader will be left looking at their community with different eyes.

My Sister and Other Liars is a world class novel, and in my opinion it is Ruth Dugdall's best book to date.