#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart. A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. Read it. And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.
"Thrilling, beautiful, and blisteringly smart, We Were Liars is utterly unforgettable." —John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our StarsDownload and start listening now!
“Narrator Ariadne Meyers’ tone iscandid as seventeen-year-old Cadence Sinclair Eastman reveals ugly realities abouther proud, wealthy family…Meyers’ expression of Cadence’s pain is raw andstartling, as is the Liars’ tragic response to her unlocking of secrets…Winnerof the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“A rich, stunning summer mystery with a sharp twist that will leaving you dying to talk about the book with a pal or ten.”
— Parade“[A] haunting, sophisticated mystery.”
— Wall Street Journal“Details the summers of a girl who harbors a dark secret and delivers a satisfying but shocking twist ending.”
— Entertainment Weekly“[A] tense, cunningly constructed novel with a surprise ending that shaters.”
— New York Times Book Review“Clever, alluring, and wildly addictive.”
— Amazon.com“The ending will shock the most jaded of readers, we promise!”
— RT Book Reviews (4½ stars)“Lockhart has created a mystery with an ending most readers won’t see coming…At the center of it is a girl who learns the hardest way of all what family means, and what it means to lose the one that really mattered to you.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)“The ending is a stunner that will haunt readers for a long time to come."
— School Library Journal (starred review)“Surprising, thrilling, and beautifully executed in spare, precise, and lyrical prose, Lockhart spins a tragic family drama, the roots of which go back generations.”
— Booklist (starred review)“A taut psychological mystery marked by an air of uneasy disorientation…The ultimate reveal is shocking both for its tragedy and for the how-could-I-have-not-suspected-that? feeling it leaves us with.”
— Horn Book (starred review)“A devastating tale of greed and secrets...Riveting, brutal, and beautifully told.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“A modern, sophisticated novel.”
— BookBub.com, 1 of 9 Books That Are So Much More Than the Next Gone Girl“Reader Meyers does an excellent job with the main character, Cadence, whose dialogue requires the full range of emotions.”
— Publishers Weekly (audio review)“Ariadne Meyers performs here and does an excellent job of portraying the troubled teen. Listeners will definitely be able to absorb the essence of Cadence’s mental anguish as well as the emotions of each of the various characters in this multigenerational family drama.”
— School Library Journal (audio review)“Perception often is not reality—and it certainly is not in We Were Liars…pitch perfect in both plotting and character development.”
— Book Reporter“Thrilling, beautiful, and blisteringly smart, We Were Liars is utterly unforgettable.”
— John Green, author of The Fault in Our StarsE. Lockhart is the author of the New York Times bestseller We Were Liars. Her other books include Fly on the Wall, Dramarama, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, and the Ruby Oliver Quartet series, which includes The Boyfriend List, The Boy Book, The Treasure Map of Boys, and Real Live Boyfriends.
Ariadne Meyers, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1969. She began an acting career at twelve, with her role as Al Pacino’s stepdaughter in Author! Author! Her most famous role to date is that of “Emma Jane McCardle,” which she portrayed on the 1980s sitcom Kate & Allie for six years. In 1991, she graduated from Yale with honors and a double major in philosophy and theater arts.