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To Tell You the Truth: A Novel Kindle Edition
Named a New York Times Best Thriller of the Year and Best Book to Gift!
"An unsettling and atmospheric thriller that’s almost impossible to put down . . . Will keep you guessing right up until its satisfying but unexpected conclusion." — Buzzfeed
"Riveting." — The New York Times Book Review
The acclaimed author of The Nanny and What She Knew—hailed by stalwarts including Ruth Ware, Liane Moriarty, Tess Gerritsen, and Shari Lapena—returns with another serpentine thriller that cleverly blends atmosphere, tarnished memories, mystery, and twisty secrets from the past into a potent, intense read that will leave you questioning everything you believe.
To tell you the truth . . . everybody lies.
Lucy Harper’s talent for writing bestselling novels has given her fame, fortune and millions of fans. It’s also given her Dan, her needy, jealous husband whose own writing career has gone precisely nowhere.
Now Dan has vanished. But this isn’t the first time that someone has disappeared from Lucy’s life. Three decades ago, her little brother Teddy also went missing and was never found. Lucy, the only witness, helplessly spun fantasy after fantasy about Teddy’s disappearance, to the detectives’ fury and her parents’ despair. That was the start of her ability to tell a story—a talent she has profited from greatly.
But now Lucy’s a grown woman who can’t hide behind fiction any longer. The world is watching, and her whole life is under intense scrutiny. A life full of stories, some more believable than others. Could she have hurt Teddy? Did she kill Dan? Finally, now, Lucy Harper’s going to tell the truth.
Cross her heart.
And hope to die.
"Spellbinding . . . Bold, suspenseful, and impossible to put down. This one will stay with me for a long time." — Samantha Downing, #1 internationally bestselling author of My Lovely Wife
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWilliam Morrow
- Publication dateSeptember 22, 2020
- File size2303 KB
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“Riveting . . . Macmillan merrily leads us down many wrong paths, all the while examining the gap between fact and fiction and the relationship between author and subject. We cheerfully follow.” — New York Times Book Reviewon To Tell You the Truth
"This deliciously multilayered tale provides genuine, shocking surprises that culminate in a satisfying and unexpected conclusion. Macmillan is a master of misdirection." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) on To Tell You the Truth
"An atmospheric, fast-paced read with an unreliable narrator right at its center." — Popsugar on To Tell You the Truth
“Spellbinding . . . Bold, suspenseful, and impossible to put down. This one will stay with me for a long time.” — Samantha Downing, #1 internationally bestselling author of My Lovely Wife, on To Tell You the Truth
“One of the most unsettling—and unforgettable—heroines I’ve ever met.” — Shari Lapena on To Tell You The Truth
"A dazzling thriller with a compelling and unreliable narrator, To Tell You the Truth is fresh, bold and ferociously smart ." — Christina McDonald, USA Today bestselling author of Behind Every Lie and The Night Olivia Fell
“The Nanny kept me in white-knuckled suspense until the very last page. Gilly Macmillan’s breakout thriller is a dark and twisted version of “Downton Abbey” gone very, very wrong.” — Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of The Shape of Night, on The Nanny
"Fresh, bold and ferociously smart . . . To Tell You the Truth had me gripped to the end. Every twist felt fresh and unpredictable, every scene atmospheric and moody. I highly recommend this pacy and intriguing thriller." — Christina McDonald, USA Today bestselling author of Behind Every Lie and The Night Olivia Fell
"Macmillan's latest is an unsettling and atmospheric thriller that’s almost impossible to put down. Told from the point of view of an unreliable narrator, it will keep you guessing right up until its satisfying but unexpected conclusion."
— Buzzfeed on To Tell You the Truth
“Macmillan expertly crafts her novel about a novelist to craft a dazzling puzzle as readers try to piece together what happened to Dan and whether or not they can trust Lucy’s unreliable narrations. Readers won’t be able to put down the book as Lucy grows increasingly unraveled by the events surrounding her and teeters toward disaster.” — The Ridgefield Press on To Tell You the Truth
About the Author
Gilly Macmillan grew up in Swindon, Wiltshire, and studied history of art at Bristol University and then at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She worked at the Burlington Magazine and the Hayward Gallery before starting a family. Gilly lives in Bristol, England with her husband and three children and now writes full time.
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- ASIN : B081FDHZYZ
- Publisher : William Morrow (September 22, 2020)
- Publication date : September 22, 2020
- Language : English
- File size : 2303 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 370 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #325,810 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,251 in Psychological Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #3,641 in Historical Thrillers (Books)
- #4,352 in Psychological Thrillers (Kindle Store)
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Gilly Macmillan is the Sunday Times & New York Times bestselling author of THE NANNY (out 2019). Also WHAT SHE KNEW (previously published as BURNT PAPER SKY in some territories), THE PERFECT GIRL, ODD CHILD OUT & I KNOW YOU KNOW.
Gilly is Edgar Award nominated and an ITW award finalist. Her books have been translated into over 20 languages.
She grew up in Swindon, Wiltshire and also lived in Northern California. She studied History of Art at Bristol University and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
Gilly lives in Bristol, UK with her family and writes full time. She’s currently working on her sixth novel.
Author photo ©Céline Nieszawer/Leextra
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The blurb describes Lucy as someone with a talent for invention and as she's a best selling novelist that is useful. However, it is less a talent for invention and more a case of her not really knowing what is real and what is fantasy.
There are two main threads through the story: the current one when her husband goes missing, and one from Lucy's past when her baby brother went missing.
Her husband was a totally unlikeable character and no great loss to the story, although obviously Lucy with her tenuous grip on reality becomes the main suspect. The other aspect to the story was the one that interested me more with Lucy slipping out of her childhood home one night and taking along her toddler brother who later goes missing when Lucy becomes enthralled with the bonfire and fireworks she's went out to see.
The author does a good job with the changing realities, but one of the main problems is that Lucy is such a weak and maleable main character. There were far too many occasions when she gave in to something she didn't want to do, even with people she didn't like or barely knew.
At 75% through the book I knew I was either going to forgive the author for those weak points if the ending was superb, or feel like I'd wasted my time.
The ending was not superb. The reason for the husband's disappearance turned out to be very weak and was not foreshadowed in any way, and as for the second thread (her young brother's disappearance) that was not concluded at all. There was a very woolly 'just imagine this lovely (impossible) thing might have happened!' Having taken us all through the disappearance of her brother this was an unforgiveable ending, along the lines of, and they woke up and it was all a dream.
This was an interesting premise that could have offered much more, the writing wasn't bad and for that reason I might try another of the author's books, but I'll be looking carefully at the reviews first.
Then her husband disappears and is found dead and her identity, changed twice since her brother’s disappearance, once on purpose and once by marriage, is revealed. Now she is suspect in two murders, her baby brother’s and her husband’s.
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The last few pages are a little rushed, as most endings in this genre are. But the overall style is quite nice. Felt like a thick read which is nice from all the light ones i’ve been doing.