The Book of Lies

On the English Channel island of Guernsey, a teenage girl's Mean Girls-like experience pushes her to murder her best friend in a scandal, she will discover, that mirrors her uncle's previously unknown story from the days of the island's Nazi occupation during WWII. Told through the voices of fifteen-year-old Cat Rozier and her long-dead Uncle Charlie--known to Cat only by the audio recordings he left behind--The Book of Lies lucidly illuminates the interior lives of a scorned modern girl with attitude and a defiant, faded man. With echoes of Nicole Krauss's The History of Love and Jennifer McMahon's Promise Not to Tell, Mary Horlock's stunning debut novel is an unforgettable exploration of aspiration, anguish, and rebellion.

Author: Mary Horlock
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 07/19/2011
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.37w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780062065094

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/09/2011
Library Journal 06/01/2011 pg. 92
Booklist 06/01/2011 pg. 32
Entertainment Weekly 07/22/2011 pg. 77

About the Author
Horlock, Mary: -

MARY HORLOCK was born in Australia but grew up on Guernsey in the Channel Islands, moving to England at the age of eighteen. She studied at Cambridge and went on to work as a curator at Tate Britain and Tate Liverpool. She is a former curator of the Turner Prize. Mary lives in London with her partner and their children and is currently writing a book on art and camouflage in the Second World War. Although she has written widely on contemporary art, this is her first novel.