We Fell Apart
By (Author) E. Lockhart
A&U Children's
A&U Children
4th November 2025
Australia
Young Adult
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage: Personal and social topics
Paperback
336
Width 153mm, Height 234mm
Matilda has been through a lot. Her mum has run off to Mexico, her boyfriend has dumped her, and her friends have cut their ties.
So when her long-lost father, the famous and reclusive painter Kingsley Cello, invites Matilda to spend the summer at his seaside home, Hidden Beach, there's nothing to stop her crossing the country to see him.
When she arrives, instead of a father, she finds a crumbling house in a state of neglect, filled with mysterious paintings and locked towers, and three teenaged boys:
Meer - her open-hearted, tattoo-obsessed half-brother, who embraces Matilda as a sister, but is hiding a dark secret;
Brock - the damaged, professionally charming former-child star who is dealing with more than just the demons of his past;
and Tatum - sullen, wild, and hardworking - who for some reason wants Matilda to leave Hidden Beach as soon as possible.
With Kingsley nowhere to be seen, Matilda must delve into the twisted heart of Hidden Beach to uncover the answers she's desperately craving. But secrets run thicker than blood, and blood runs like seawater.
And everyone here is lying.
From the author of the worldwide sensation We Were Liars - over 2 million copies sold.
Don't miss any of the We Were Liars novels: WE WERE LIARS * FAMILY OF LIARS * WE FELL APART
'A mysterious castle. Three magnetic boys. A summer of secrets. This book will fill your heart-and break it. Compulsively readable to the very last page.' - Jennifer Lynn Barnes, author of The Inheritance Games.
'Compulsively readable to the very last page.' -Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games
E. Lockhart is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller We Were Liars and its prequel, Family of Liars. She also invented a superhero for DC Comics. Her books include Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero and Again Again. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks was a National Book Award finalist and a Printz Honor Book. Genuine Fraud was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize. Visit her online at EmilyLockhart.com, and follow @elockhartbooks on Instagram and @elockhart on Twitter.