A searing novel about being a wife a mother and an artist and how marriage makes liars of us
all. ' An unflinchingly true and honest depiction of a marriage turning from gold to dust -
the resentments and disappointments that can rot the heart' - Miranda Cowley Heller author of
The Paper Palace 'A white-hot dissection of the power imbalances in a marriage and as
gripping as you want fiction to be. Any spouse that has ever argued about money time work and
childcare should read it' - Nick Hornby author of High Fidelity A nuclear family can
destroy a woman artist. I'd always known that. But I'd never suspected how easily I'd fall into
one anyway. When Jane an aspiring writer meets filmmaker John Bridges they both want the
same things: to be in love to live a successful creative life and to be happy. When they
marry Jane believes she has found everything she was looking for including - a few years
later - all the attendant joys and labors of motherhood. But it's not long until Jane finds
herself subsumed by John's ambitions whims and ego in short she becomes a wife. As Jane's
career flourishes their marriage starts to falter. Throughout the upheavals of family life
Jane tries to hold it all together. That is until John leaves her. Sarah Manguso's Liars is
a tour de force of wit and rage telling the blistering story of a marriage as it burns to the
ground and of a woman rising inexorably from its ashes. 'Painful and brilliant - I loved it'
- Elif Batuman author of The Idiot and Either Or
