The Lying Game
by Ruth Ware
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Pub Date Jun 15 2017 | Archive Date Aug 31 2017
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Harvill Secker
Description
'To read [The Lying Game] is to have your nerves slowly but inexorably shredded as, over and again, the tension builds and then evaporates until the final, unexpected denouement' Metro
'A gripping, unpredictable narrative that shifts like sand underfoot, and a plot that turns like the tide.' ERIN KELLY bestselling author of HE SAID SHE SAID
'Thank goodness for Ruth Ware...[The Lying Game is] gripping enough to be devoured in a single sitting' Independent
Four friends. One promise. But someone isn't telling the truth. The twisting new mystery from bestselling phenomenon Ruth Ware.
The text message arrives in the small hours of the night. It’s just three words: I need you.
Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her.
At school Isa and her three best friends used to play the Lying Game. They competed to convince people of the most outrageous stories. Now, after seventeen years of secrets, something terrible has been found on the beach. Something which will force Isa to confront her past, together with the three women she hasn't seen for years, but has never forgotten.
Theirs is no cosy reunion: Salten isn't a safe place for them, not after what they did. It’s time for the women to get their story straight…
Advance Praise
To read this novel is to have your nerves slowly but inexorably shredded
as, over and again, the tension builds and then evaporates until the
final, unexpected denouement
METRO
Ruth Ware is one of the best suspense writers out there and The Lying Game
is her strongest book yet. A gripping, unpredictable narrative that
shifts like sand underfoot, and a plot that turns like the tide.
ERIN KELLY, bestselling author of HE SAID, SHE SAID
A slow-burn novel full of layers that builds and builds until you have
to know what happens next even if it means missing out on sleep
RED ONLINE
[The Lying Game] delves into the caustic side of female friendship and opens with an
unexpected invitation to revisit the secrets of the past… If you’re
after a book that’s impossible to put down, look no further
UPCOMING
Atmospheric, mysterious, gripping.
MARIAN KEYES
Another heart-stopping belter of a thriller from an epic talent
ISABELLE BROOM, HEAT
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SUN ON SUNDAY
A rollicking page-turner that reads like Agatha Christie got together with Paula Hawkins
STYLIST
Praise for In A Dark, Dark Wood:
A slickly plotted, whip smart thriller - genuinely chilling and totally compulsive
SUNDAY MIRROR (Book of the Week)
Thrilling, gripping & well-written
METRO (Book of the Week)
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781911215011 |
| PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 384 |
Featured Reviews
Mystica V, Reviewer
Four girls, friends from the time they were young teenagers in a boarding school in Salten have remained friends though their lives have taken them in diverse paths. They have not met for years but when a message comes from one of them "I need you" it draws them all back immediately despite each one having responsibilities which they cannot shake off easily.
A secret they share buried so deep that should it get out, consequences will be very tough on all of them. They could lose their careers, their families, their marriages and their lives. Arriving in Salten the four try to come to terms and to organise the identical story that they should come up with, in case the worst scenario happens. Unravelling slowly first through a dead sheep left on their doorstep following up with unsigned notes, they know that they are not the only ones privy to their deadly secret.
The setting of a very closed village where the four girls are even decades later disliked and shunned, the isolation and general desolation of the village all add to the scenic gloom where you know that sooner or later things are going to come to a climax which is not going to be good for any of them. Descriptive of the marshes and the tides and the seas around Salten are so good that you can feel how much the environment added to the story's telling. For someone who has not seen this kind of scenery, it was very evocative of the dangers and the treachery of these tides and seas.
This is not the happy reunion of school girls meeting after seventeen years. This is a dark and dangerous period in their lives. It was as good as watching this in a movie. You felt the atmosphere pull you into the story.
Goodreads and Amazon review up on 27/8/2017. Review on my blog posted on 10/9/2017. Also linked to my FB page.
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