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A superbly creepy, twisty thriller about obsessive love, psychological torture, and the darkest chambers of the human heart. -The Times (UK) Naomi Jenkins knows all about secrets: three years ago something so terrible happened to her that shes never told anyone about it. Now, Naomi has another secret: her relationship with the unhappily married Robert Haworth. When Robert vanishes without explanation, Naomi knows he must have come to harm. But the police are less convinced, particularly when Roberts wife insists he is not missing. In desperation, Naomi decides that if she cant persuade the detectives that Robert is in danger, shell convince them that he is a danger to others. Naomi knows how to describe the actions of a psychopath; all she needs to do is dig up her own traumatic past.

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Table of Contents PENGUIN BOOKS THE TRUTH-TELLERS LIE Sophie Hannah is the - photo 1
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PENGUIN BOOKS
THE TRUTH-TELLERS LIE
Sophie Hannah is the author of the international bestsellers Little Face, The Wrong Mother, and The Dead Lie Down. In 2004 she won the Daphne Du Maurier Prize for Suspense Fiction, and she is also an award-winning poet. She lives in Cambridge, England, with her husband and two children.
Praise for Sophie Hannah
The Dead Lie Down
A master of intricate plotting, Hannah seamlessly melds the police procedural with a gothic-inspired whodunit.
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Hannah deals brilliantly with the issues of artistic accomplishment and success, unrequited emotion, revenge, and retribution. This stunning psychological thriller from the author of the equally outstanding The Wrong Mother has the complexities of love at its core.
Booklist (starred review)
This utterly gripping thriller should establish Hannah as one of the great unmissables of this genreintelligent, classy and with a wonderfully gothic imagination.
The Times (London)
Beautifully written and precision-engineered to unsettle.
The Guardian (London)
A master class in plotting that adds twist after twist in a hectic finale.
The Sunday Times (London)

The Wrong Mother
Shockingly (and refreshingly) blunt riffs about the violent emotions of motherhood and the familial yearnings of men, along with chilling and darkly funny revelations about lust and loyalty, make this novel one of the seasons most absorbing reads.
O, The Oprah Magazine
Paced like a ticking time bomb with flawlessly distinct characterization, this is a fiercely fresh and un-put-downable read.
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Sophie Hannah just gets better and better. Her plots are brilliantly cunning and entirely unpredictable. The writing is brilliant and brings us uncomfortably close to the dark, ambivalent impulses experienced by the parents of difficult, demanding children.
The Guardian (London)
Sophie Hannahs ingenious, almost surreal mysteries are so intricately constructed that its impossible to guess how they will end.
The Daily Telegraph (London)
The Wrong Mother is Hannahs most accomplished novel yet. As the revelations tumble forth, the tension is screwed ever tighter until the final shocking outcome. Exemplary.
Daily Express (London)

Little Face
Dark psychological suspense... The power this novel packs derives from narrators that play fast and loose with what they know.... The solution is a stunner.
The Boston Globe
Sophie Hannah... delves successfully into moral quandaries: What does motherhood mean? What should a mother do when she thinks her child is in dangerespecially if her own family doesnt agree?... Its Alices choices and their consequences that make Little Face so compelling.
The Washington Post
Few authors play with reality and perception as skillfully as Hannah does.... Riveting reading.
Mystery Scene
Echoes of Gaslight and Rebecca... a tautly claustrophobic spiral of a story delivered with self-belief.
Kirkus Reviews
The author is a poet by trade and she brings a wealth of psychological and literary subtlety to bear in this impressive novel. Smart and disarmingly unnerving.
Daily Mail (London)
A chilling thriller. I was left thinking about the book for days, and thats usually a good thing.
The Guardian (London)
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For Lisanne with love
From: NJ
To: Speak Out and Survive
Subject: This is not my story
Date: Mon, May 18, 2003 13:28:07 +0100

This is not my story. Im not sure I want to share that, or my feelings, with strangers, on a website. It would seem phoney, somehowphoney and attention-seeking. This is just something I want to say, and your website gives no address for submitting letters.
Did you ever stop to wonder, when you were thinking of a name for your organisation, whether speaking out is always the best thing to do? Once you tell somebody something, it makes it more real. Why take what you wish had never happened and make it happen again and again in the minds of everyone you know? I will never tell anybody my so-called story, which means there will be no justice, no punishment for those who deserve it. Sometimes that thought is pretty hard to take. Still, its a small price to pay for not having to spend the rest of my life being thought of as a victim.
Sorry, a survivor. Though that word makes me feel uneasy. At no point did anybody try to kill me. It makes sense to talk about survivors in the context of a plane crash or a nuclear explosion: situations in which it might be expected that everyone involved would die. But in most cases rape is not a life-threatening event, so the sense of rare achievement that the word survivor conveys seems patronisinga sort of false consolation.
When I first logged on to your site, I hoped that something I read there would make me feel better, but the opposite has happened. Why do so many of your correspondents use the same cloying vocabulary: thriving, telling and healing, smiling through tears, rising from the ashes, etc.? It reminds me of the lyrics of a bad heavy-metal album. Nobody says that they do not ever expect to get over what happened to them.
This will sound terrible, but I am actually jealous of many of the people whose stories are posted on your site: the ones with insensitive, demanding boyfriends, the ones who drank too much on first dates. At least they can make sense of their ordeals. My attacker was someone I had never seen before and have not seen since, someone who kidnapped me in broad daylight and knew every detail about me: my name, my job, where I lived. I dont know how he knew. I dont know why he chose me, where he took me or who all the other people were. I will not go into any more detail than that. Perhaps if I did, youd understand why I feel so strongly about what Im going to say next.
On the What Is Rape? page of your site, you list a number of definitions, the last of which is any sexually intimidating behaviour. You go on to say, No physical contact needs to have taken placesometimes an inappropriate look or comment is enough to make a woman feel violated. When I read that, I wanted to hit whoever wrote it.
I know youll disapprove of this letter and me and everything Ive said, but Im sending it anyway. I think its important to point out that not all rape victims have the same mindset, vocabulary and attitudes.
Part I
2006
Monday, April 3
I COULD EXPLAIN, if you were here to listen. I am breaking my promise to you, the only one you ever asked me to make. Im sure you remember. There was nothing casual about your voice when you said, I want you to promise me something.
What? I asked, propping myself up on one elbow, burning my skin on the yellow nylon sheet in my eagerness to be upright, attentive. I was desperate to please you. You ask for so little, and Im always looking for small, subtle ways to give you more. Anything! I said, laughing, deliberately extravagant. A promise is the same as a vow, and I wanted there to be vows between us, binding us.
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