The lying game began as typical teenage indulgence—thoughtless, slightly cruel amusement played with tall and taller tales. Years later, four former players find their adult lives still bound and threatened by the secrets they share.The players are:
- Isa, the narrator, a lawyer navigating the demands of new motherhood on maternity leave.
- Fatima, a practicing Muslim and physician, whose childhood friends struggle to accept how her faith has shaped her life.
- Thea, who is struggling to find a career, hiding evidence of alcoholism and self-harm.
- Kate, who can't break away from the ghost of her artistic father, living in his old home and studio.
Shifting between their past and their present, the story unfolds as their long-buried lies and darkest secrets threaten to resurface, binding them together and tearing them apart. It's a twisty tale where the past is never truly over, and the game is always being played.
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The text message is just three words: I need you.
Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her now.
Something terrible has been found on the beach. Something which will force Isa to confront her past, together with the three best friends she hasn't seen for years, but has never forgotten. Theirs is no cosy reunion: Salten isn't a safe place for them, after what they did.
At school the girls used to play the Lying Game. They competed to convince people of the most outrageous stories. But for some, did the boundary between fact and fantasy become too blurred?
And how much can you really trust your friends?
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