Isa, Thea, Fatima and Kate meet at Salten, a boarding school on the English coast. Kate lives nearby, and with her eccentric dad, Ambrose – an artist and instructor at the school. These adolescent girls become close friends and participants in what they call ‘The Lying Game.” As they are asked to leave school due to some possibly inappropriate sketches Ambrose has done of them, they also share a terrible secret. Now, in present day, the friends get back together as their secret is about to be exposed and they find that they may have not even known the truth of the secret they’d kept for all these years. . . The story switches from past to present as the true facts are finally revealed.
A Reese Witherspoon book club selection by the author of The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway.