"Emotionally astute and provocative, this intricately balanced read pierces thoughts and feelings as it takes you into the depths of a desperately failing marriage. "
Oh so fierce and yet weepingly vulnerable, this novel bares its soul as it searches emotional connections and failings within a family. Jane begins her marriage with hope, yet finds herself consumed by her husband’s ambition. Sarah Manguso writes with the most beautiful eloquence. It felt as though Jane’s thoughts were dropping straight from her mind onto the page, each one building, piece by piece, to form a whole. While on occasion reading this novel almost hurt, it didn’t overwhelm and I simply couldn’t put it down. There is an incredible intimacy, I was a part of Jane and I ached for her bruised and battered emotions. This is a relationship tale that roars with defiance. The ending felt triumphant, and not only is this a Liz Pick of the Month, it has also been awarded a LoveReading Star Book. Liars burns with an intense heat as it dissects a shattered relationship, highly recommended.
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A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all.
A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. I'd always known that. But I'd never suspected how easily I'd fall into one anyway.
When Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live a successful, creative life, and to be happy. When they marry, Jane believes she has found everything she was looking for, including - a few years later - all the attendant joys and labors of motherhood. But it's not long until Jane finds herself subsumed by John's ambitions, whims, and ego; in short, she becomes a wife.
As Jane's career flourishes, their marriage starts to falter. Throughout the upheavals of family life, Jane tries to hold it all together. That is, until John leaves her.
Sarah Manguso's Liars is a tour de force of wit and rage, telling the blistering story of a marriage as it burns to the ground, and of a woman rising inexorably from its ashes.
Liars features in the following genres: Book Club Recommendations, Books of the Month, Liz Robinson's Picks of the Month, Recommendations, Star Books, Family Drama, General Fiction, Literary Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Romance / Relationship Stories, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Social issues, Fiction, Fiction: narrative themes
Liars is available in Paperback, Hardback
Liars was written by Sarah Manguso and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Liars has 256 pages
£8.99
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