'Superb ... Witty assured energisingly original' GUARDIAN 'Razor-edged and emotionally rich
... Exquisite' LUCY ROSE AUTHOR OF THE LAMB 'A literary star in the making' MARIE CLAIRE
*** Introducing an outstanding new voice in literary fiction: a sensual sharp and utterly
compelling campus novel about grief reinvention and the ripple effects of telling lies If
I ever woke up with an ungodly dread - that I could change it all now turn around and confess
- I ignored it. I had never been good and there was no point in trying now. On a small
liberal arts campus in upstate New York Charlotte begins her final year with a lie. Her father
died over the summer she says. Heart attack. Very sudden. Charlotte had never been close with
her classmates but as she repeats her tale their expressions soften into kindness. And so she
learns there are things worth lying for: attention affection and as she embarks on a
relationship with fellow student Katarina even love. All she needs to do is keep control of
the threads that hold her lie - and her life - together. But six thousand miles away alone in
the grey two-up-two-down Staffordshire terrace she grew up in her father is very much alive
watching television and drinking beer. Charlotte has always kept difficult truths at arm's
length but his resolve to visit his distant daughter might just be the one thing she can't
control. 'The kind of interior voice that ensnares you ... The art college campus novel I've
always wanted.... Grace Murray is one of those writers who you can devote yourself to' CLAIRE
KOHDA AUTHOR OF WOMAN EATING
