Lies Like Love
  • Published: 3 July 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141343204
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

Lies Like Love

Young Adult Thriller

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The haunting and heartbreaking new novel about a girl whose life is threatened by her mother's terrible secret, from the critically acclaimed author of Black Heart Blue

LIES
'There were a few problems . . . bullying . . . a fire . . .'

LIKE
'I think she's verging on psychosis . . . now she's lashing out.'

LOVE
'She's got no one else to fight for her.'

Fifteen year-old Audrey just wants to be normal.
She's trying to fit in.
But what happens when the person closest to you suffocates you with their love?
What happens then?
  • Published: 3 July 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141343204
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352
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About the author

Louisa Reid

Louisa Reid is 35 years old, married with two young daughters and currently teaches English in a girls' school in Cambridge. She is originally from Cheshire, studied English at Oxford and has lived in London and Zurich. Her pupils are definitely not the inspiration for her characters in her novels but witnessing their passion for great fiction inspired her to write for young adults.

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Praise for Lies Like Love

[Lies Like Love] . . . chillingly unravels a dysfunctional relationship that threatens to destroy the love it feeds on. Reid evokes the uncertainty and joy of teenage romance with all its passion and pain and brilliantly controls the increasingly disturbing truth . . .

Daily Mail

Shockingly brilliant.

@sunbookscolumn

the debut author of 2012 to watch

Film vs Book

Stunning, shocking, sad and incredibly touching. We are pretty sure you will read it in one sitting then want to share the book with someone else

LoveReading

We read this in one sitting. *****

Teen Now

Heartbreaking . . . demands to be read all at once, but will stay with you long after

Teri Terry, author of the Slated trilogy

Absolutely wonderful

Bidisha, The Guardian

Some books stay with you long after you've finished them and Reid's debut is one of them. It is a moving, gripping story

The Sun

A brilliant twist

Sunday Express

Emotive, sometimes shocking story

The Sunday Times
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