The Lies Beneath: A gripping tale of friendship, love, and the masks we wear...

✍ Scribed by Lucy O'Callaghan

• Book ID: 113819550
• Publisher: Poolbeg Press
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 176 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781781996997
• ASIN: B0CVS5DQLR

✦ Synopsis

Carla seems to have it all – a big house in a picturesque village on the west coast of Ireland, a rich husband, and two great kids. But she wants to be Carla again. To rediscover herself beyond her roles as a mother and wife. Teaching is her passion, but her husband Thomas prefers to keep his wife at home and blocks her attempts to return to work.

Carla’s best friend Emily is struggling in the dating world. Back to work since separating from her husband, she longs to have a partner again – a longing that leads her to make a disastrous mistake.

Amanda, a friendly librarian, is a manipulative mother behind the scenes, and prepared to use extrem measures to hold on to her student daughter Dawn who is desperate to escape her suffocating situation.

Hidden beneath the picture-perfect marriage, the enduring friendship and mother/daughter relationship lie betrayals that will shatter three families.