New from Walker/Canongate: an uncompromising debut about the trials of growing up and the dark histories we all harbor.
Guernsey, 1985. When fifteen-year-old Catherine sees her best friend fall from a wild cliff path, she vows never to tell. But Catherine was the last person to see her alive. 1940. Charlie is also holding back a secret from the adults on the island. As German soldiers arrive on Guernsey, he carries out an act of rebellion with consequences that will reach far into the future – and into Catherine's own life. The Book of Lies is a powerful novel about friendship and betrayal. Weaving together two lives across the decades, it proves that no truth is as simple as it seems.
- ISBN10 1406342785
- ISBN13 9781406342789
- Publish Date 7 June 2012 (first published 3 March 2011)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Walker Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336
- Language English