Book after Book

Hi Elizabeth ! First of all, I would like to congratulate you on the publication of  Seven Lies ! Can you please briefly tell us what it is about? A: Thank you so much! Most simply – and perhaps as you might expect! – it is a book about lies. It’s about the lies we tell ourselves, those we tell our friends and our families and about how little lies can evolve into something much bigger. I think, for me, it is also a book about truth. In an era of fake news, misinformation and discussions around the authenticity of social media, I found myself wondering what the truth actually looks like. Can we accurately report on our own lives? Is there ever only one version of the truth? I hope that it’s also a book about the intensity and emotional intimacy of female friendships. I was particularly keen to explore how childhood friendships can evolve into adulthood, and what happens when they become tangled and complicated. It’s also about grief and loss, themes which run through the...

B y Elizabeth Kay Published by Little, Brown Synopsis: Jane and Marnie have been inseparable since they were eleven years old. They have a lot in common. In their early twenties they both fell in love and married handsome young men. But Jane never liked Marnie's husband. He was always so loud and obnoxious, so much larger than life. Which is rather ironic now, of course. Because if Jane had been honest - if she hadn't lied - then perhaps her best friend's husband might still be alive… How did this book end up in my hands? I read a serialisation of this novel via The Pigeonhole app, which I am ever so grateful to. Was it a page-turner? I almost tripped over the words in my rush to read on! Hadn’t this been a serialisation, it definitely would not have taken me 7 days to finish reading it. Although 7 days for 7 lies has a good ring to it! Did the book meet my expectations? I don’t think I expected something quite so breath-taking! Jane is an extremely intere...