Lies She Told by Cate Holahan
Lies She Told is a novel that blurs reality and fiction and adds in two unreliable narrators. What you get is a thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat, waiting for the curtain to whoosh open, revealing the truth. Liza Cole is an author who's had a respectable run publishing novels, but now she's stuck, and under a deadline to produce another novel in quick time, or she will probably lose her contract. She's struggling with infertility; taking hormones and trying desperately to engage her husband in this latest round of treatments. He's grown distant, and it's no wonder: his best friend and law partner Nick is missing, and no one has a clue what's happened to him. Liza's novel begins to take shape in the form of Beth, a new mother who is also riding the hormone train, and feeling a bit insecure regarding her husband's affections. As a reader, it took me awhile to get it in my head that Beth was the creation of Liza, and not anot...