The Lies You Told Me
Description: 'I do not know what you have been told about your mother. But I know it cannot be the truth...' Klara Mortimer never really knew her mother, Sadie, a former model, who left when she was just six years old. All she has is a handful of stories, passed down from the father who raised her. Klara tells herself she has long ago come to terms with her mothers disappearance from her life, but then she receives a note and key from someone who calls themselves 'N.R'. These lead her to a garage, full of the remnants of her mothers past, and to the diary she kept all those years ago. Within its pages, Klara discovers a woman who doesn't quite match the portrait her father has painstakingly painted for her, and a story that leads her to question everything she thought she knew..
This was another book I picked up from my library and the back cover sounded pretty intriguing so I decided to give it a go as I have also never read anything by this author.
From the very beginning, your drawn in by wanting to kno what happened to Klara's mother which takes about 8 chapters before you start to learn anything. But those chapters set the story so it's not dull or anything.
As the story unfolds you are transported into Sadie's world as Klara's reads from her mothers diary. Klara doesn't know why she was given the key or by whom but it leads her to finding her mothers diary and she had no idea that her father was keeping secrets from her.
As you get further into the book, you start to learn about Sadie and her unhealthy obsession with Archie. The lengths she went to in order to keep him was shocking. Eventually Klara starts to out the pieces together and begins to unravel the lies that her father has told her throughout her life.
Throughout the whole book I really had no idea what the outcome was going to be or what really happened to her mother. Sometimes you think you may know what happens but by the end of the book when you finally discover what happened, you realise you had no clue as to what the big secret was.
A brilliant but sad ending. I honestly didn't see that coming. Even though Klara finally found out the truth, there is still something else that Coco and Henry are keeping from her. Just when you think all the lies are I out in the open BAM! There is another one Klara doesn't know about.
I truly enjoyed this book and look forward to reading more by Jessica Rushton in the future.
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FTC: Description is from Goodreads & image is from google. All opinions are my own and 100% honest.
