![]() ![]() It's adorably warm and funny, and I was expecting more of the same, but We Were Liars is quite different: cool, bitter and brutal, this compelling short novel casts a dispassionate eye on the insular world of the American oligarchy.Ĭadence is the eldest granddaughter of a family so rich that they never mention money. ![]() I'd only read one of them, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, the tale of a feisty teenage girl at a prestigious boarding school who refuses to play by the rules. ![]() The American writer Emily Jenkins writes picture books and for adults under her own name, and YA novels as E Lockhart. And indeed she does, but her story soon descends into much murkier waters, eyeing its teenage protagonist with a twisted smile and a tragic sense of the pain wrought by selfish, self-absorbed adolescents. "J une of the summer I was 15, my father ran off with some woman he loved more than us." Cadence Sinclair, the teenage narrator of We Were Liars, initially seems very familiar: quirky, perky, sentimental and charming, blessed with an unusual name and a neat turn of phrase, surely she's going to lead us on a tale of unrequited love studded with witty one-liners. ![]()
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