My Lies, Your Lies: The emotionally gripping new novel for 2020 from the bestselling author

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To make matters worse, the book was at least 20% too long with unnecessary padding and utterly ridiculous conversations .

And interspersed with her story is a narrative from 1968 that slowly unfolds to reveal another story. She wanted to right the wrongs that had taken place previously as a result of the outcome to the story Joely now transcribes. MY LIES, YOUR LIES had all this and yet it didn't quite live up to the expectations one would have of a Susan Lewis book. I don’t normally start my review while still reading a book but I feel I must in case I forget how I felt at this time. Peppered throughout are the memoir entries written in the first person narrative, leaving the reader pondering who she may well be.And considering what the basis of this story is about, I would have thought she would have been reigned in a little more.

One of the things this author does really well is create complex situations which are incredibly realistic and very easy to feel involved in. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. There's also Holly, a teen who adds some comedic relief, and for a change, it's nice to have some witty teenage comments thrown in a fairly serious book.I recently read a novel about a schoolgirl and teacher having a sexual relationship which I found to be a really well-written novel so while I was keen to read this particular book I tried to leave some space between so I didn't compare. Holly is a precocious 15 year old that should be taught a little more respect than the way she spoke to her parents, grandmother and even Freda. It carried on being interesting with the introduction of Freda, a formidable elderly woman, virtually living as a recluse in the Valley of Rocks at Dimmett House. She travels from London to a remote area in North Devon to Dimmett House, riddled with secret rooms, towers and turrets and darkened halls. I do love how the author approached and introduced an illicit affair between a 15 year old schoolgirl and her music teacher.

I found myself completely unsure about what was going to happen next and the author managed to keep me in suspense until the end which I thought was very clever.Freda has brought Joely to her dungeon-like house to tell her that her mother screwed her teacher and her brother is only her half brother because the teacher is her brother's father and her brother's father was FREDA'S BROTHER. I don’t care that it was consensual, or that the teacher was a young man himself, I just cannot support this kind of overview of a relationship of this kind. I felt that there were several points at which the book could have ended and it would have been a brilliant read. There is a small cliffhanger left in, in the closing lines, which I think you’d only realise was a cliffhanger if you’d been paying attention to the details of stories told within the main narrative arch, but it’s very clever. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password.

Although most cases of sexual interest in any children below the age of consent is often labelled as pedophilia. Yes there were uncomfortable parts, a 25 year old teacher grooming his 15 year old pupil and the abuse that followed but in some ways it alerts the reader to how the abuser snares his young victim and remember she was a child even though she was promiscuous and fell in love with him.as they parade around naked in the confines of a secluded cottage, soaking up their love for one another. But it also portrays a relationship between a 15 year old school girl and a 25 year old music teacher as a good and pure thing. Unfortunately though, after some menacing and cliffhanger type chapters, the book seemed to teeter on the cliff edge before eventually plummeting to the rocks below and then of course the ending was shattered.