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The Liars
- Narrated by: Casey Withoos
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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Summer, 2000. In the tranquil town of Queen's Point in southern Australia, the Whitlam family marks the end of every season with a lavish party in their clifftop mansion. Here, clutching her first glass of real champagne, the summer breeze intoxicating on her skin, sixteen-year-old Lucy Ross is kissed for the very first time. And then, in the shadows of the rose garden, she sees something she shouldn't.
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Every evening, Allison watches her husband’s new house, desperate to find some answers. Every morning, she puts on a brave face to teach kindergarten. She’s a good teacher, everyone says so - this stalking is just a tiny crack in her usual self-control. A late enrolment into her class brings little Gracie. Allison takes the sick girl under her wing, smothering Gracie with the love she can’t give her own son. When Gracie has a chance to go to America for treatment, Allison whips up the community into a frenzied fundraising drive.
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Loved it.
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Kept me up!
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Incredible
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1987: It's late summer and a time of change when a 17-year-old girl leaves the local shopping center in the sleepy town of Lowbridge and is never seen again. Her unsolved disappearance is never far from the town's memory. There's those who grew up in the shadow of her loss whose own lives were altered forever, and those who know more than they're saying. It just takes an outsider to ask the right questions.
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Narrator was decent, but that’s about it.
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- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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Summer, 2000. In the tranquil town of Queen's Point in southern Australia, the Whitlam family marks the end of every season with a lavish party in their clifftop mansion. Here, clutching her first glass of real champagne, the summer breeze intoxicating on her skin, sixteen-year-old Lucy Ross is kissed for the very first time. And then, in the shadows of the rose garden, she sees something she shouldn't.
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Loved it.
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Her family offered a life of power and privilege, until Lotti turned away from her father’s grand plans – and towards a life that felt more like her own. With a new start as a teacher, Lotti may have even found the right man, a rough-around-the-edges single dad who’d never fit in with her high-brow upbringing, but who has started to feel like home. But Lotti isn’t the only one running. August’s strong silent demeanour may be part of his appeal, but as they get closer, his inability to talk about his past begins to jeopardise their future.
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Narrator was decent, but that’s about it.
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Different version perhaps ?
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Publisher's Summary
A wife burning with resentment. A husband hiding the past. Their teenage daughter crusading for the truth. What if your search for the truth puts your family at risk?
The close-knit community of Kinton Bay is shocked when fifteen-year-old Siena Britton makes a grisly discovery in the national park. She believes it's a skull from the town's violent colonial past and posts a video which hits the news headlines.
Her parents, Meri and Rollo, aren't so sure. In 1998, their classmate went missing after a party in the Killing Cave. They're horrified to discover the destructive teenage parties are still happening, and Siena was there last weekend.
While Meri is trying to keep her daughter out of trouble, she doesn't realize her son, Taj, has his own problems. And none of them foresees the danger that Siena's actions will create for the whole family.
As more secrets are exposed, the police investigate whether multiple murders have been committed. If so, by whom? And is the killer still living in Kinton Bay?
The Liars is a heart-stopping cocktail of family secrets, sinister unsolved killings and a community at war with itself.
From the bestselling author of Six Minutes and The Good Teacher comes a compelling family drama of marital secrets and family tensions set within an investigation of sinister unsolved killings.
Critic Reviews
"One of my favourite Australian writers! Petronella McGovern consistently delivers smart, twisty page-turners guaranteed to keep her readers coming back for more!" (Liane Moriarty)
"Compelling, contemporary crime fiction at its best. McGovern fully captures the soul of an Australian small town overdue a reckoning." (RWR McDonald, author of the bestselling Nancy Business)
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- Michael Ryan
- 07-08-2023
Juvenile, simplistic rubbish.
Juvenile simplistic rubbish. Should be classified as kiddy lit only I don’t think I’d want my kids subjected to the woke social engineering component.
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- Mel
- 02-07-2023
Ok
It was ok, but I didn’t love it as much as her previous two books.
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- Tatsiana
- 20-01-2023
Absolutely loved this book
I originally bought a paper book, but I was too impatient to read the whole book until I found out who the killer was, so I looked at the end before finishing it. But I liked the book and story so I got it again on Audible and I really enjoyed listening to how the story developed with all the details. The book is very much educational about life in small country towns in Australia, and it teaches the history of the country as well. The story is very engaging too and the performance is great! The only thing I am not quite sure about realistically of the person whose name we are guessing until the very end.
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- B Livesey
- 07-11-2022
She’s done it again!
Petronella McGovern never fails to deliver! Another brilliant read. One of my favourite authors. When will they start turning them in to movies?
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