Perfect Liars- Rebecca Reid

Three women, three lives. All married with careers and thoughts of children. They met
when at boarding school. Two were fee payers, one a scholarship which meant they had
different background, different lives and different aspirations. Chapters alternate between
 “then” and “now”. Now is a dinner party for the three couples. Then is at the boarding
school and the lead up to the event that binds them. They have a strange relationship and
 in some ways so is the story. We learn about the women/girls and their lives and past but
 not about the crime until the very last furlong. I am really not quite sure what to make of
 this book. It engaged me as I wanted to find out what bound them together when it
 appeared that they really didn’t like each other. Maybe that was it- without the bind they
would have drifted apart never to meet again. It made me think of Picnic at Hanging
 Rock and Abigail’s Party where there was so much discord you wondered why the group
 were together as the atmosphere was clearly tense. That said it is brilliantly written,
 well executed and an easy enough read. One very different book.

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Synopsis: 

They have it all. And they’ll do anything to keep it that way.

For fans of Liane Moriarty and Lisa Jewell,

Perfect Liars is truly gripping, dark and original.

Sixteen years ago, best friends Nancy, Georgia and Lila did something unspeakable whilst

attending an exclusive British boarding school. Their crime forged an unbreakable bond

between them, a bond of silence. But now, one of them wants to talk.

One wrong word and everything could be ruined; their covetable lives, careers and

relationships. It’s up to Georgia to call a crisis dinner. But things do not go as planned.

Three women walk in to the dinner, but only two will leave.

Murder isn’t so difficult the second time around...

Perfect Liars tells the story of a group of friends bound by their dark pasts and their

desperate need to keep their secrets hidden from the world around them.

Alternating between glimpses of the girls’ privileged but stifling time at boarding school and

the course of one simmering, tense dinner party years later, the book poses the question:

How far would you go to protect the life you’ve built?

Rebecca is a freelance journalist. She is a columnist for the Telegraph Women’s section, works

for Metro Online and has written for Marie Claire, the Guardian, the Saturday Telegraph,

the Independent, Stylist, Glamour, the iPaper, the Guardian, Indy100, LOOK and the New

Statesmen amongst others.

Rebecca is a regular contributor to Sky News and ITV’s This Morning as well as appearing on

Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, LBC, BBC News 24 and the BBC World Service to discuss her

work.

She graduated from Royal Holloway’s Creative Writing MA in 2015 and Perfect Liars is her

debut novel.

Rebecca lives in North London with her husband