After the Lie (Audible Audio Edition) Kerry Fisher Emma SpurginHussey Audible Studios Books
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When Lydia was a teenager, she made a decision that ruined her family's life. They've spent the last 30 years living with the consequences and doing their best to pretend it never happened.
Lydia's husband, the gorgeous and reliable Mark, and her two teenage children know nothing about that summer back in 1982. And that's the way Lydia wants it to stay. The opportunity to come clean is long gone, and now it's not the lie that matters; it's the betrayal of hiding the truth for so long.
When someone from the past turns up as a parent at the school gates, Lydia feels the life she has worked so hard to build slipping through her fingers. The more desperate she becomes to safeguard her family, the more erratic her behaviour becomes. But when the happiness of her own teenage son, Jamie, hangs in the balance, Lydia is forced to make some impossible decisions. Can she protect him and still keep her own secret - and if she doesn't, will her marriage and family survive?
After the Lie (Audible Audio Edition) Kerry Fisher Emma SpurginHussey Audible Studios Books
Lydia's been keeping a secret since her teenage years, one which caused her father to be jailed and her mother to be embittered and angry towards her ever since. Now Lydia is successful in business, married to a good man and has teenagers of her own.When the man who caused all the problems reappears with a pretty daughter who sweeps Lydia's son off his feet the trouble begins. The lies breed lies that are exposed and topple like dominoes.
I didn't particularly like Lydia, but then, protagonists need not always be likeable. Some characters were well portrayed and complex; one was less believable, seeming contrived. There is some witty, chatty dialogue which was entertaining, but was marred, for me, by the writer's frequent use of profanity. For this reason I rate the book 2.5
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After the Lie (Audible Audio Edition) Kerry Fisher Emma SpurginHussey Audible Studios Books Reviews
This book was not very good. Lydia, the lead character, is extremely annoying and I agree with the other reviewer who said that her big "secret" wasn't as dire as she made it seem. Furthermore, Lydia's mother is a huge b**ch and it makes no sense why Lydia never stands up to her until the very end. If that were my mother, she'd be out of my life. It was maddening to read. Lastly, the trump card Lydia holds in her pocket at the end of the story (the one that will supposedly save her son) is extremely hard to believe, considering I'm pretty sure the statute of limitations in England for statutory rape is far less than thirty years. The only interesting character in the book is Katya, the unhinged nightmare of a woman who's daughter is dating Lydia's son.
She's a genius, a master of putting your deepest fears and secrets into beautiful, emotional and hilarious words on page after page. It's the stuff of real life and she is so genuine and sincere! She says exactly what you're thinking as if she lives right along side you. This story was a heartbreaking tale of mistakes that anyone of us could and have made and the courage to keep going in spite of the heart ache. Any mother knows she would keep going even if she'd rather die from her pain just so she could make sure her children were well and in this book Lydia is a hero. What a real family and an absolutely beautiful story. You won't want to put it down for a second!!
I wanted to like this book but found myself disliking the protagonist more with every turn of the page. She is not relatable or believable. To the extent she is believable, she is just like that self-absorbed exhausting female relative you can't stand to be around because she turns everything into a huge drama. She has created and lives in a reality where everything is about her ... which perhaps explains why she exaggerates the significance of a silly childhood embarrassment. She's a neurotic mother, a flaky wife, and has the emotional intelligence of a shrubbery (although, to be fair, the shrubbery is more self-aware). There were some funny lines ... which made me wonder if it was really supposed to be a comedy. But it mostly wasn't funny. It's unusual for me to not finish a book, but I just could not slog through the last 30% to the end.
A boring read! I gave it two stars because the book is well written -- except the plot and the characters are ridiculous and even the not-bad writing gets old when the same things are repeated over and over and over and over. The "lie" is just not such a big deal -- a mistake of an innocent kid. The characters are so one-dimensional that they're flat out annoying. The main character's entire life revolves around what happened as a child, but she's amazingly cold about what she later intentionally does as an adult. The characters all read like stereotypes and the various coincidences in the book had me rolling my eyes. I listened to the audio book and was VERY disappointed in the reader. She was flat and boring -- rarely changed her tone or volume. Don't waste your time.
Kerry Fisher has a special way of creating intrigue and tension in this book that keeps you reading page after page. This is my second book of hers and I am hooked. She reigns as Queen of Secrets and Lies set against a backdrop of everyday people. I liked that there were not true heroines or villains in this book. People are complicated and she captures that quite well. I look forward to many books to come from Kerry Fisher.
This was was fun to read, funny and heart wrenching at the same time. I did get a little impatient with Lydia/Sally, i just wanted her to come clean, but i kept reminding myself that it had become so ingrained in her to hide, that she really didn't know any other way to live. This book made me LOL at times, Kerry draws such vivid pictures, its easy to imagine the events and characters.
At first I found the premise of this domestic suspense kind of strained because I couldn't quite believe the protagonist couldn't just come clean as an adult about her teen secret... so that started to turn me off the book, BUT then the writing and plotting took unexpected turns into unknown territory and the story really took off. I quickly found myself rooting for Lydia as she digs herself into a deeper and yet deeper hole and of course I was sitting there thinking, "No!!! Don't go there! Don't do that!" etc. The ending was very gripping. I'll read more from this author!
Lydia's been keeping a secret since her teenage years, one which caused her father to be jailed and her mother to be embittered and angry towards her ever since. Now Lydia is successful in business, married to a good man and has teenagers of her own.
When the man who caused all the problems reappears with a pretty daughter who sweeps Lydia's son off his feet the trouble begins. The lies breed lies that are exposed and topple like dominoes.
I didn't particularly like Lydia, but then, protagonists need not always be likeable. Some characters were well portrayed and complex; one was less believable, seeming contrived. There is some witty, chatty dialogue which was entertaining, but was marred, for me, by the writer's frequent use of profanity. For this reason I rate the book 2.5
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