We Were Liars

Every summer, the Sinclair family gathers on their private island off the coast of Massachusetts. They are beautiful, wealthy, and seemingly perfect. Cadence Sinclair is the eldest grandchild—golden girl of a golden family. She and her cousins Johnny and Mirren, along with their friend Gat, call themselves the Liars and spend each summer in a paradise of sailing, swimming, and shared secrets.

Then, during the summer Cadence is fifteen, something terrible happens. She wakes up in a hospital with a head injury and no memory of what occurred. Her family refuses to tell her the truth. Two years later, Cadence returns to the island determined to remember—and what she discovers will shatter everything she thought she knew about her family, her friends, and herself. E. Lockhart writes in short, sharp, almost hallucinatory sentences that mirror Cadence's fractured memory, building toward a twist ending that readers describe as physically shocking. We Were Liars is not just a mystery; it is a meditation on wealth, privilege, and the lies families tell to protect their image.

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