A Book of Untruths

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Pub Date Jun 01 2017 | Archive Date Jun 02 2017

Description

A Book of Untruths is a family story told through a series of lies. Each short chapter features one of these lies and each lie builds to form a picture of a life-Miranda Doyle's life as she struggles to understand her complicated family and her own place within it.

This is a book about love, family and marriage. It is about the fallibility of human beings and the terrible things we do to one another. It is about the ways we get at-or avoid-the truth. And it is about storytelling itself: how we build a sense of ourselves and our place in the world.

A Book of Untruths is a surprising, shocking and invigorating book that edges towards the truth through an engagement with falsehood. It brings questions to its readers; not answers.

A Book of Untruths is a family story told through a series of lies. Each short chapter features one of these lies and each lie builds to form a picture of a life-Miranda Doyle's life as she struggles...


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Advance Praise

'A true writer’s voice'
Irvine Welsh

'A true writer’s voice'
Irvine Welsh


Available Editions

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ISBN 9780571331666
PRICE £14.99 (GBP)
PAGES 272

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