The Lie

by Helen Dunmore

Set during and just after the First World War, The Lie is an enthralling, heart-wrenching novel of love, memory and devastating loss by one of the UK's most acclaimed storytellers. Cornwall, 1920, early spring. A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless and without family. Behind him lie the mud, barbed-wire entanglements and terror of the trenches. Behind him is also the most intense relationship of his life. Daniel has survived, but the horror and passion of the past seem more real than the quiet fields around him. He is about to step into the unknown. But will he ever be able to escape the terrible, unforeseen consequences of a lie?

• ISBN10: 080212254X
• ISBN13: 9780802122544
• Publish Date: 1 April 2014 (first published 16 January 2014)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 8 February 2021
• Imprint: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 304
• Language: English

Reviews

[brokentune]

DNF @ 23%

I'm just not feeling this one. The story seems pretty flat and although the topic of the devastating effects of the WW1 experience is described well, neither the story nor the characters or the storytelling is engaging me enough to want to spend more time with this book.