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The Lies We Told

por Harriet Tyce

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Sadie Roper returns to London to rebuild her shattered life, but as she navigates the politics at her daughter's exclusive school and resumes her criminal barrister career with a high-profile case, she attracts the attention of unknown enemies.
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Sadie Roper's life is not going the way she expected. Her husband has left her and her nasty mother has died, but not before putting a caveat in her will. Sadie's daughter, Robin, will inherit the house in London, but only if she attends Ashams, an all-girls private school where Sadie attended (yet hated). Sadie needs a job, but had left her job as a solicitor when she married Andrew Spence and moved to the US. Now that she is back in London, Sadie's friend, Zora, helps her get a job defending a young man accused of improper relations with an underage girl. The team is convinced she is a liar. Additionally, Sadie is considered an outcast and an interloper at the school because her daughter was admitted mid-term, and Sadie doesn't join in the activities of the moms. There is something sinister going on since acceptance into the upper level is very competitive. When Robin's grades outshine the others, Robin is put in danger.
The end is chilling. ( )
  rmarcin | Sep 18, 2023 |
This was all a bit much really: not a single mother would speak to Sadie, and not a single child would play with her daughter Robin. I found it hard to get a handle on Julia and Nicole - even when they were being 'friendly' I wouldn't have wanted to spend any time with them. The court case Sadie was dealing with as a junior barrister made more sense until the very ending, which puzzled me -

SPOILER

in real life Jeremy and his dad would simply not have told Jeremy's barrister that he was guilty. What possible reason would they have had for coming clean?

I found the resolution to the storyline with Andrew extremely unlikely too, although I did see it coming. ( )
  pgchuis | Jun 30, 2021 |
Best for:
Anyone who likes a little private school intrigue, and who also has the stomach for some seriously cruel

In a nutshell:
A mother returns to where she was raised, with her daughter in tow. Things have changed … or have they?

Why I chose it:
Part of a paperback sale, and it looked pretty intriguing.

Review:
Sadie has fled the US - and her husband - with her 11-year-old daughter Robin. Due to some cruel pre-death machinations by her mother, Sadie is able to live in her deceased mother’s home, and must send Robin to the same private London all-girls school that Sadie attended, or else lose the home. Sadie doesn’t care much, as she just needs to get away from her husband (why, we don’t find out right away).

Sadie finds work as a barrister thanks to help from her best friend, but find the mothers at the private school to be extremely snarky and rude. Their daughters are also icing out Robin. This goes on for the first quarter of the book or so, and it’s distressing to the point that I almost stopped reading. I don’t mind some cruelty in a book so long as the instigators get their comeuppance.

I’m glad I stuck with it though. Eventually something happens that brings Sadie and Robin into the Mean Girl mothers’ good graces. Sadie continues work on a case defending someone who may have been falsely accused.

This book is just under 400 pages and I finished it in one day. It’s a quick read, and interesting. There are twists, things you can see coming and things you can’t. And it has a very interesting and satisfying ending.

Recommend to a Friend / Donate it / Toss it:
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  ASKelmore | Jun 6, 2021 |
between 2.5 and 3 stars. the tension builds nicely in this one, although the time jumps were a little hard to track in the audio. (i wasn't always 100% sure if we were going forward or back, or if we were in the present. i think this would probably have been clearer in print.) the general discomfort with the situation grows, and not being sure who to trust keeps the reader going, and going faster and faster, by the end.

i do think there's a little too much going on here, though. the added subplots of the trial and husband seemed extraneous, and really don't add anything. it's enough to have the enormous tension of the school situation and the exams and competitiveness of the girls and moms on top of sadie and robin moving back to a new (to robin) area and the remnants of sadie's mom's issues hanging over their heads. the rest takes us too off track of the main issue, and there are other ways to keep zora in sadie's life. and no need for andrew at all; he could have died, they could have been already divorced, whatever.

but the central part is well done and full of tension and just the right amount of twisty. when julia first screamed at and accused pippa of drugging daisy, i thought she was just covering her own tracks, but by the end, and certainly when we heard that pippa was on the drip where the girl drowned, i thought it was her. nice combination of bad parenting by julia, who was still giving her daughter pills to increase her academic performance, and real devilry by pippa and her mother. but i wish it'd been more of a surprise. i'd definitely read her again. ( )
  overlycriticalelisa | Mar 5, 2021 |
There's one in every organization, school, workplace and more. A bully. I do find them hard to read. And Tyce has truly created a horrid bully in Julia. She's head of the PTA and most of the other school gate parents are her sycophants. The children's behavior is also influenced, and Sadie's daughter Robin is treated shamefully at the prestigious school. Why not leave the school? Press for change? Well, Sadie has come back to her home town and is living in her deceased mother's home. Their relationship was fractious and to own the home and fulfill the will, Robin must attend the school. Hmmm..... a bit of a stretch for me. Sadie has also left her marriage. Okay, that fits, but he makes an appearance later on that was again a bit of a stretch for me.

I had read Tyce's debut novel Blood Orange, and my main problem was with the protagonist. I do like Sadie better, but still have issues with her choices. As in the previous book, Sadie is a barrister, one trying to get back into chambers after many years. I grew quite irritated with her when she made some questionable choices.

I don't doubt the bullying part of the plot - I can absolutely imagine it. But, the cruelty shown to both her and her daughter in the beginning doesn't seem to ring any alarm bells and again, I questioned Sadie's subsequent choices. I have to mention here that I think Robin was the character I enjoyed the most - and she seems to be the only well adjusted character.

There's a lot happening in The Lies You Told - a bit too much in my opinion. The court case, disappearing and reappearing husband and the dead, evil mother was overload. The bullying plot line was enough. Tyce comes up with a action filled run to the final pages and a nice little twist at the end. The Lies You Told was just okay for this listener.

I did choose to listen to The Lies You Told. The reader was Sarah Durham. She has a lovely voice, pleasant to listen to and well enunciated. She speaks with a British accents that is easy to understand. She uses different voices - Julia's is particularly well done. ( )
  Twink | Jan 15, 2021 |
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