**From the bestselling author of *Six Minutes* and *The Good Teacher* comes a compelling family drama of marital secrets and family tensions set within an investigation of sinister unsolved killings.** 'One of my favourite Australian writers! Petronella McGovern consistently delivers smart, twisty
The Liars
β Scribed by Ida Linehan Young
- Book ID
- 110910964
- Publisher
- Flanker Press
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-CA
- Weight
- 712 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781771178020
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β¦ Synopsis
Newfoundland, 1895 Alice and John MacDonald, both running from pasts that were too traumatic to face, meet by chance and stay together in a fragile world that's rife with lies and secrets. The only thing they have in common is the love for a seven-year-old child, Beatrice, whom they have raised since she was a baby. When an escaped murderer triggers a series of events that will significantly change the lives of John and Alice and jeopardize the life of their darling daughter, they must take drastic action to protect the welfare of the child. Follow John and Alice as they are forced to leave the wilds of Labrador for an isolated future in Holyrood, Newfoundland, only to have their world turned upside down when they must face the consequences of the lives they lived. As the reality of their past unfolds with disastrous outcomes, will it mean they lose Beatrice forever to the mother who has longed for the childβa child born from a vicious assault and given away by a cruel stepmotherβand is now eager to make her part of her new family?
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