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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Children’s, Teenage & Educational
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WE WERE LIARS

E. Lockhart

Cadence’s memory fails her. She begins to give her possessions away one by one. Something is very wrong. And then the secrets begin.

Tucked away on the island where her family has gathered for every summer of her childhood, she falls into the embrace of her three favorite cousins and the strange sequence of events continues. What is the story accumulating on the Post-It notes stuck to her headboard? Why did Grandpa Harris replace his beautiful old home with a cold modern one? Why are the mothers such wrecks, drinking and sobbing on each other's shoulders? What is she missing? And then, things become very wrong. Things that couldn’t be true, unless a ghost, a real ghost has joined their summer idyll. E. Lockhart is the author of 8 YA novels, DRAMARAMA, FLY ON THE WALL, and co-author of HOW TO BE BAD. Under the name Emily Jenkins, she is the author of middle grade series INVISIBLE INKLING (2011, Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins), chapter book series TOYS GO OUT, and many award-winning picture books.

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Book Published 2014-03-01 by Random House/Delacorte
Book Published 2014-03-01 by Random House/Delacorte

Comments

E. Lockhart is one of our most important novelists, and she has given us her best book yet. Thrilling, beautiful, and blisteringly smart, WE WERE LIARS is utterly unforgettable.

Australia (Allen & Unwin), France (Gallimard), and Israel (Yedioth)

Cadence Sinclair Eastman is the oldest grandchild of a preeminent family. The Sinclairs have the height, the blondness, and the money to distinguish them, as well as a private island off the coast of Massachusetts called Beechwood. Harris, the family patriarch, has three daughters: Bess, Carrie, and Penny, who is Cadence’s mother. And then there is the next generation, “the Liars”: Cadence; Johnny, the first grandson; Mirren, sweet and curious; and outsider Gat, an Indian boy and the nephew of Carrie’s boyfriend. Cadence, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat are a unit, especially during “summer fifteen,” the phrase they use to mark their fifteenth year on Beechwood—the summer that Cady and Gat fall in love. When Lockhart’s mysterious, haunting novel opens, readers learn that Cady, during this summer, has been involved in a mysterious accident, in which she sustained a blow to the head, and now suffers from debilitating migraines and memory loss. She doesn’t return to Beechwood until summer seventeen, when she recovers snippets of memory, and secrets and lies, as well as issues of guilt and blame, and love and truth, all come into play. Throughout the narrative, Lockhart weaves in additional fairy tales, mostly about three beautiful daughters, a king, and misfortune. Surprising, thrilling, and beautifully executed in spare, precise, and lyrical prose, Lockhart spins a tragic family drama, the roots of which go back generations. And the ending? Shhhh. Not telling. (But it’s a doozy). HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Lockhart’s latest is unlike anything she’s done before. With a Printz Honor to back her, plus a major marketing campaign—and a promotional quote from John Green—this is poised to be big.— Ann Kelley

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