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  • Published: 1 June 2009
  • ISBN: 9781863256964
  • Imprint: Bantam Australia
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $19.99

Beautiful Lies





‘Suspenseful, sensitive, sexy, subtle... The best nail-biter I have read for ages. Highly recommended.’ - Lee Child

What if your name was a lie? What if your whole life was a lie? In the split second freelance writer Ridley Jones saves a small child from being run over, her life changes forever. A newspaper photographer catches everything on film and Ridley becomes an instant media darling. But just as her life seems to be settling back to normal, an unmarked envelope slipped under her door shatters everything. It contains the newspaper article, along with an old photograph of a man, a woman who looks eerily like Ridley, and a little girl. The accompanying note reads simply: ‘Are you my daughter?’

Forced to question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family, Ridley wanders into a dark underworld she never knew existed. Now she's not sure who is on her side or who has something to hide… even and maybe especially Jake, her new neighbour - a stranger she is irresistibly drawn to who seems to have secrets of his own.

  • Published: 1 June 2009
  • ISBN: 9781863256964
  • Imprint: Bantam Australia
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $19.99

About the author

Lisa Unger

Lisa Unger is an award-winning New York Times and international bestselling author. Her novels have sold over 1 million copies in the US and have been translated into 26 different languages.

She was born in New Haven, Connecticut but grew up in the Netherlands, England, New Jersey and New York, where she graduated from the New School for Social Research. Lisa now divides her time, along with her husband and daughter, between Florida and New York City.

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