Our Secrets and Lies

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A brilliant picture of why you should not try to live your life through your children Lucy Murphy has a single goal in life - to give her children a brilliant future. An unplanned pregnancy forced Lucy to abandon her own dreams, so she is determined that her twin daughter and son will seize every opportunity. When they get a chance to move to a prestigious school, all Lucy sees is the fulfilment of her every wish for them. Loving them as fiercely as she does, Lucy is blind to the risks of taking two seventeen-year-olds away from everything familiar and dropping them into an alien world. Even when warning signs are flashing, she cannot see the dangers of pushing her vision on her children - especially her sensitive daughter - until it's almost too late. For her family to survive, Lucy has to face up to some surprising and difficult truths - and figure out how to find herself again.

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Heartfelt and deeply moving but also so gripping it is almost impossible to put down * Irish Independent *
A first class novel which I couldn't put down. It was both heartbreaking and heartwarming. The difficult subjects of the novel are dealt with in a sensitive way and the book was a joy to read * Woman's Way *

Author Bio

Sinead Moriarty's novels have sold over 900,000 copies in Ireland and the UK. She has won over readers and critics by telling stories that are humane, moving and relevant to modern women. In 2015 she won the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction. She lives in her native Dublin with her husband and their three children.