The main story takes place 17 years after the girls meet, interspersed with flashbacks to their time in high school. They don’t pick on new kids or girls who can’t defend themselves, but rather aim for the ones in charge, the popular girls or teachers who think they’re above it all. The rules are simple: tell a lie, stick to your story, don’t get caught, and never lie to each other.
It doesn’t take newcomers Isa and Fatima long for veterans Thea and Kate to include them in their Lying Game. Something that would have legal consequences should the truth come out…And then imagine that one of the only three other people who know what really happened texts you out of the blue years later saying only, “I need you.” With this chilling opener, Ruth Ware sets the stage for THE LYING GAME.Īt Salten House, a second-rate British boarding school near the cliffs of the English Channel, 15-year-olds Isa, Kate, Thea, and Fatima meet on the first day of a new school year. Imagine for a minute that you did something in high school you deeply regret.
0 kommentar(er)
