num_pages: 368
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Book of Lies
publisher: Harper Perennial