We Were Liars

248 Pages·2014·2.92 MB·English

by  E. Lockhart

Praise for
we were liars
“You’re going to want to remember the title. Liars details the summers of a girl who
harbors a dark secret, and delivers a satisfying but shocking twist ending.”
—Breia Brissey, Entertainment Weekly
*“[A] searing story … At the center of it is a girl who learns the hardest way of all
what family means, and what it means to lose the one that really mattered to you.”
—Publishers Weekly, Starred
*“Surprising, thrilling, and beautifully executed in spare, precise, and lyrical prose.
Lockhart spins a tragic family drama, the roots of which go back generations. And the
ending? Shhhh. Not telling. (But it’s a doozy.) … This is poised to be big.”
—Booklist, Starred
“A haunting tale about how families live within their own mythologies. Sad, wonderful,
and real.”
—Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies and Leviathan
“Spectacular.”
—Lauren Myracle, author of Shine, The In�nite Moment of Us, and TTYL
“A haunting, brilliant, beautiful book. This is E. Lockhart at her mind-blowing best.”
—Sarah Mlynowski, author of Don’t Even Think About It and Gimme a Call
“Dark, gripping, heartrending, and terrifyingly smart, this book grabs you from the �rst
page—and will never let go.”
—Robin Wasserman, author of The Waking Dark
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How to Be Bad (written with Sarah Mlynowski and Lauren Myracle)

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or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2014 by E. Lockhart
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Map and family tree art copyright © 2014 by Abigail Daker
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
We were liars / E. Lockhart. — First edition.
pages cm
Summary: Spending the summers on her family’s private island o� the coast of
Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles
to remember what happened during her �fteenth summer.
ISBN 978-0-385-74126-2 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-375-98994-0 (library binding) —
ISBN 978-0-375-98440-2 (ebook) — ISBN 978-0-385-39009-5 (intl. tr. pbk.)
[1. Friendship—Fiction. 2. Love—Fiction. 3. Families—Fiction. 4. Amnesia—Fiction.
5. Wealth—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.L79757We 2014
[Fic]—dc23
201342127
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