My Lies, Your Lies: The emotionally gripping new novel for 2020 from the bestselling author

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I think it had a great start and then derailed at some point and I’m not sure what happened from there. All this was Marianne's fault because she should have defended David and told the authorities that David 'never raped her', not actually, only in the 'technical sense'. I found myself completely unsure about what was going to happen next and the author managed to keep me in suspense until the end which I thought was very clever. Finally, just before starting this book I watched Julia Bradbury on TV doing one of her Britain’s Best Walks on the Exmoor coast visiting Lynton and Lynmouth which made it even easier to picture the beautiful places described.

If you are looking for a gripping read to distract you from everything then I thoroughly recommend this one! Young Freda is 14/15 and Sir is in his mid-to-late twenties and although it doesn’t sound like a huge leap of an age gap, we have to remind ourselves that it is.

As it just gets better and better till boom, you have been reading for hours without a drink or anything to eat and you finish feeling wrung out and wondering where you are. Hired by Freda, Joely is there to help uncover what really happened – but as the story starts to unravel, it will end in a way she could never have imagined. The story begins with Joely, a former journalist who is dealing with the fact that her husband has moved in with her best friend, Martha the meat-eating man stealer. I adore these – they take me back to my first overseas holiday to Austria when I was 12 and we rode the funicular in Salzburg. We all agreed that though we enjoyed the book the ending felt a little rushed and also a little twee with things turning out the way they did.

She is soon surprised to discover that the truth lies much closer to home and is bizarrely connected to her. The landscape around the house was also beautifully drawn, to the point where it was easy to imagine it. I know times were different in the 60s but it is never acknowledged that a 15yr old can't have an 'affair' with her teacher, this relationship is abusive and illegal. Born in England and having resided in France and the United States for many years, she now lives in Gloucestershire, England. And interspersed with her story is a narrative from 1968 that slowly unfolds to reveal another story.

Although most cases of sexual interest in any children below the age of consent is often labelled as pedophilia. We all have examples of people who fell in love at that age and either are now happily married, or haven't seen the object of their teen affection for years. The technical sense is still rape, and even if Marianne had defended him to the police he still would have been charged, so how is it her fault?

One minute she is full of memories she regales Joely with, the next she takes to her room and doesn't speak to her for a day. But it also portrays a relationship between a 15 year old school girl and a 25 year old music teacher as a good and pure thing. Having read My Dark Vanessa in January, and quickly naming it one of my top books of the year — regardless of what’s to come, this only solidified my opinion on the matter.This page-turner challenges readers to evaluate their own lives and choices, and what really matters most. Not only does everyone in the book let this dangerous behaviour slide, Freda is welcomed with open arms into the family and she and Marianne become BFFs.