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Everything is Lies
Helen Callaghan
Everything is Lies
Helen Callaghan
392 pages
Published 2018
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This is an English psychological suspense novel first published in 2018, about a young woman discovering that her quiet anxious mother was once a member of a New Age type cult. I got the paperback from a friend and found myself rapidly immersed in the mystery of what had happened, and finished it with a day.
Young architect Sophia goes back to her parents’ house to find her mother Nina hanging dead, and her father critically injured. Finding a set of Nina’s notebooks written to discuss her past involvement with charismatic cult leader Aaron Kessler, she will discover that everything she knows about her life is a lie.
I’m trying not to read so much in this genre nowadays, because it all got too samey, but it means when I do indulge I enjoy them much more, even when the characters are unlikeable and the twists sometimes too obvious. Both Sophia and Nina’s naivety and blind willingness to be manipulated by the men in their lives was frustrating to read about, but essential to the plot. Things did slow down in the middle with Sophia falling apart and being an idiot, and various aspects are totally far fetched, but everything gets tied up by the end so if you like this sort of forgettable melodrama then you should enjoy this one. 3.5 rounded up.
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