The Lie

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Five years ago, Jane Hughes was called Emma Woolfe and she and three friends set out for the holiday of a lifetime to Nepal. The fun that they were expecting however soon turned into a nightmare. The Lie is a downright dark and very twisted psychological thriller that is a compelling rollercoaster of a read especially as the tension builds to a crescendo finale when we finally receive the answers to the questions posed throughout the book. With the multiple twists in the examination of friendships and cults you really do enter a dark and very creepy world. The characters are well developed well written and the story really does grip you by the throat and not let you go until the end. I certainly would not want to get on the wrong side of Cally Taylor because The Lie is an example of her thinking she has a seriously twisted mind that would make her revenge a very painful cold dish being served. I have long been an admirer of Helen Dunmore and am pleased to say that I greatly enjoyed her latest work. Obviously it is the Centenary of the First World War and so there are bound to be many books about such a cataclysmic historical event which changed Europe, and the people involved, forever. This is a moving read, but events and memories are unravelled slowly – almost poetically – and it is not a book to rush, but to savour and think about. Former Olympic Gymnast And ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Contestant Mary Lou Retton Says She’s “Staying Very Positive” After Recent Hospitalization He held such positions as assistant city editor, chief copy editor, news editor, and Life section editor, before becoming the paper’s humour columnist in 1993. He was one of the paper’s most popular columnists before retiring from the position in 2008 to work exclusively on books.

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The novel is told from the first person perspective of Daniel Branwell, a young man who has returned from France after a stint in the Army. His narrative voice from the start is not a realistic male one, and it certainly sounds far too feminine to be anything close to plausible at times. Both of Daniel’s parents are dead, and his only company is an elderly woman named Mary Pascoe who lives nearby -‘Even with her milky eyes she still seemed more like a bird than a woman… I was glad that the humanness in her seemed to have been parched away, so that she was light enough to fly’ – and his memories. Starred Review. Dunmore does a superb job of capturing her lead's inner torment, even as his story creeps toward a shattering conclusion." - Publishers Weekly What I got was a mixed bag of a book to say the least. It's left me somewhat baffled as to where it went in places and why. I shall do my best to express how it impacted me.

The Lie

I strongly recommend this to anyone who likes psychological thrillers, and I can’t wait to read The Accident. The narrative that smoothly shifts from present to past in Emma's (hiding under the new name Jane) POV is easy to read, engaging, and quite gripping. The author certainly piqued my curiosity about what actually went on in their retreat in Nepal and while the narrative progressively divulges the events, things become very dark , suspenseful, and creepy. What is a Dauphinoise Potato Pithivier? How Dana Accidentally Aced 'The Great British Baking Show' "Pastry Week" Technical Challenge

Matthew Perry's Behavior "Concerned" 'Friends' Co-Creator Marta Kauffman During The 2021 Cast Reunion This was my first time reading a book by British author C.L. Taylor, and I really enjoyed it. The Lie was a very sinister and atmospheric tale of psychological suspense. At one stage, I was doubting everybody who was around Jane, completely unsure whom to trust. Jane was a very likable character, but there weren't many of those. And yet another dud from Barclay. Though, after the last three novels (which were also duds), I'm not expecting anything from here anymore. But it's eerie how an author who always had it down when it came to character development, descriptions and suspense, had degraded into mediocrity and shallowness, and he can't seem to break out of it (or, perhaps, he doesn't want to). I thought the book was extremely good at depicting the dynamics of groups. Firstly, the female toxic friendships that were shaped by competitiveness, envy and bitterness and secondly, the group dynamics at the "retreat" in Nepal, which showed how easily people can be manipulated and how dangerous a situation can turn once a follow-the-leader environment has been established. However, there were some situations in Nepal as well as in Wales where I felt the plot was losing some credibility. Nevertheless, it was such a tense, fast-paced and provocative story, which was refreshingly different, I really liked it and will seek out more by this author. If Goodreads still have their favorite author list, Linwood Barclay would be up there for me. The Lie Maker is an excellent thriller with good twists!!

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Another find in the local library. I have been meaning to read more Dunmore for a while - my only previous one was her Women's Prize winner A Spell of Winter. In the afterword to her 2012 ghost story The Greatcoat, Helen Dunmore writes of her fascination with "the long shadows of war": "In the immediate aftermath, the need to reconstruct and ensure survival is so strong that there may not be time or energy to consider the dead." This aftermath has been the focus of Dunmore's recent novels – The Betrayal followed the siege of Leningrad and The Greatcoat was set in 1950s England, in a landscape still scarred, like its inhabitants, by the war. Her 13th book, The Lie, is a continuation of the theme, though the story begins this time in 1920, in the wake of the first world war. While The Lie may be the first of many literary reimaginings of that conflict in this centenary year, it will undoubtedly prove one of the most subtle and enduring. I suspect that if I didn’t live in West Cornwall I wouldn’t have been distracted at all; but I do, and I was. And I suspect that if so much of this book hadn’t been so very good then I wouldn’t have minded so much.From 1987 to 1993, Ham worked for the Institute for Creation Research, and in 1994 set up what in 1995 became Answers in Genesis (AiG), a creation ministry dedicated to "upholding the authority of the Bible from the very first verse." Famed for her searing accounts of the siege of Leningrad and its aftermath, Helen Dunmore moves to England after the First World War in The Lie. She chronicles the struggle of a young man without family and homeless amid the quiet landscape of Cornwall, trying to escape his memories of trench warfare.”— Daily Express, Top titles for 2014