Susan Lewis – My Lies, Your Lies

My Lies, Your Lies is Susan Lewis’s new book. She always finds the taboo, sensitive subjects and works her magic. My Lies, Your Lies is no different.

Joely is a ghostwriter whose husband is on the verge of moving out and going to live with her best friend. Luckily Joely has taken an assignment to ghostwrite a memoir for Freda Donahue, a reclusive, rather famous author who lives in Devon. Joely goes to stay while she writes for Freda thinking she will, at least, be away from it all while she processes all the rather harsh events happening to her.
Joely finds Freda a rather strange character and while glad she has been asked, does wonder why an author would need a ghostwriter and, how she came to choose her out of all the ghostwriters? Freda’s story is a tale of a schoolgirl being in love with a teacher but Freda want the spin to be that the girl had seduced the adult, but is this really what happened?

The book takes on dual timelines. we go back to 1968, a schoolgirl who falls for her music teacher and even persuades her mum to allow her to have piano lessons in order to spend time alone together, they succumb to a passionate affair which is kept secret but then he tries to finish it and the consequences are disastrous!
Joely while writing these memoirs, starts to feel a little too isolated and finds she is unable to get out and about a little less than she thought and to top it all her wi-fi signal is rather patchy. As the memoirs suddenly start to take a darker turn, she realises there is more to this than she bargained for!

I thoroughly enjoyed the dual timeline, it seemed that secrets were constantly discovered while travelling with Joely and Freda down the twisted road they travelled together.

This book deals with some very sensitive subjects and delves into grief, loss, betrayal and revenge and I felt that Susan, as always, handled them well. A massive thank you to Anne Cater of Random Things Tours for allowing me to be a part of ‘My Lies, Your Lies’ Blog Tour.