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The First Lie

Diane ChamberlainSeries: Necessary Lies
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Pages
35
Year
2013
Language
English
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group

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An e-original short story that sets the stage for bestselling author Diane Chamberlain's novel Necessary Lies (September 2013).
The First Lie gives readers an early glimpse into the life of thirteen-year-old Ivy Hart. It's 1958 in rural North Carolina, where Ivy lives with her grandmother and sister on a tobacco farm. As tenant farmers, Ivy and her family don't have much freedom, though she and her best friend, Henry, often sneak away in search of adventure...and their truest selves. But life on the farm takes a turn when Ivy's teenage sister gives birth-all the while maintaining her silence about the baby's father. Soon Ivy finds herself navigating the space between adolescence and adulthood as she tries to unravel a dark web of family secrets and make sense of her ever-evolving life in the segregated South.

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"Diane Chamberlain's Necessary Lies will steal your heart. This novel, about the courage it takes to be who you're supposed to be even when all of society's messages are telling you otherwise, is full of discoveries--for the reader as well as for the two struggling but brave protagonists. Warning: this novel will steal your time and all commitment to other obligations, too--once you open it, nothing else will matter but seeing it through to the white-knuckle, heart-racing end."
Katrina Kittle, author of The Blessings of the Animals
"This is the kind of book that holds you spellbound and makes you remember these characters, this time and place, long after you finish the book. Diane Chamberlain's novel is an emotional powerhouse, and she is a master at illuminating both the darkest and most hopeful places in the human heart."
Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of Beach House Memories
"Two girls names are carved inside a closet--what could have happened there? Set in the rich and morally complex territory of the rural South in 1960, the plot of this enthralling novel transfixed me from the very first pages, and its vivid and sympathetic characters haunted me long after the last. Chamberlain achieves that rare and irresistible combination: suspense and heart."
Christina Schwarz, New York Times bestselling author of Drowning Ruth

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