Book of Lies by Horlock, Mary

24 in stock

233mm x 152mm x 24mm

Pages: 336

When you live on an island as small as Guernsey, its hard to imagine that secrets can stay secret. But they can and they do. And fifteen-year-old Catherine Rozier knows the best one yet. Its about the night her friend Nicolette disappeared on the cliffs by Clarence Batterie. Catherine wants to take the blame for what happened, but the story she starts telling isnt hers alone. There are other people on this island who have got away with murder, and Catherine thinks its time the truth came out. Are these just the wild imaginings of a lonely teenager? Decades earlier, someone else stood on these cliffs, at this very spot. Charlie Rozier was almost Catherines age when Guernsey was occupied by the Germans. He trusted the one friend he shouldnt have. Did Catherine make the same mistake? Dwelling on the dark and difficult truths hidden within a family and on an island during the Second World War, The Book of Lies spins together the ? stories told forty years apart ? of Catherine and Charlie, who come to understand that no truth is as simple as it seems.