lockhart’s work, and it’s definitely got me intrigued to read more! “Don’t pretend you would never hurt anybody.”įriends, this book was a RIDE. An irresistible, unpredictable boy.Ī summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes. You definitely don’t need any prior knowledge from WWL to understand this one though.Ī windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts.Ī hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow.Ī fiery, addicted heiress. PSA that while this is a prequel to We Were Liars, the first line of this book is apparently a massive spoiler for that book, so it is NOT SAFE to read this first unless you are carefree vis-à-vis spoilers. Family of Liars takes readers back to the 80s to live the story of another summer, in another generation, and the secrets that will haunt a family for decades to come. While We Were Liars has recently become a BookTok sensation, it has been making waves on Bookstagram and BookTube since its release almost a decade ago. lockhart’s Family of Liars is the prequel to the 2014 favourite, We Were Liars. Agent: Elizabeth Kaplan, Elizabeth Kaplan Literary.E. Lush language and a setting full of breezy glamor provide an easy entry point into this layered, atmospherically tense exploration of jealousy, love, and family loyalty. In the weeks that follow, she learns several ugly family secrets as events stress-test the sisters’ bonds.
When the siblings’ uncle and cousin show up with surprise guests-three charismatic teen boys-Carrie is swept into a romance with one of them, dishy but careless Lawrence “Pfeff” Pfefferman. Numbing herself with prescription codeine and filched sleeping tablets, Carrie finds comfort in visits from Rosemary’s palpable, talkative ghost. Though the rest of her family seems to have moved on, 17-year-old Carrie still grieves for her youngest sister, Rosemary, who drowned the previous summer at age 10. Centered on the original Liars’ mothers as teens in 1987, the story is narrated by Carrie, the eldest of the three surviving Sinclair sisters, in response to a request for details about “the absolute worst thing you ever did, back then.” The bulk of the action unfurls on and around Beechwood, the wealthy family’s private island off the Massachusetts coast. Lockhart returns for another look behind the privileged Sinclair family’s gleaming facade in this absorbing prequel to 2014’s We Were Liars.
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