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    My Sister and Other Liars
    My Sister and Other Liars
    My Sister and Other Liars
    Audiobook9 hours

    My Sister and Other Liars

    Written by Ruth Dugdall

    Narrated by Henrietta Meire

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Sam is seventeen, starving herself and longing for oblivion. Her sister, Jena, is mentally scarred and desperate to remember. Between them, they share secrets too terrible to recall.

    Eighteen months earlier, Sam was still full of hope: hope that she could piece together Jena's fragmented memory after the vicious attack that changed their family forever. But digging into the past unearthed long-hidden lies and betrayals, and left Sam feeling helpless and alone in a world designed to deceive her.

    Now, in a last bid to save her from self-imposed shutdown, Sam's therapist is helping her confront her memories. But the road to recovery is a dangerous one. Because Sam has not only been lying to her doctors: she's been hiding dark secrets from herself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 1, 2017
    ISBN9781536614312
    My Sister and Other Liars
    Author

    Ruth Dugdall

    Ruth Dugdall is an award-winning British crime author. Her novel The Woman Before Me won the Crime Writers’ Association’s Debut Dagger in 2005, followed by the Luke Bitmead Bursary in 2009. Since then her novels have been published internationally. Ruth’s work is inspired by her previous career as a probation officer, and she continues to be involved with the criminal justice system in a voluntary capacity. Having previously lived in Luxembourg, she now divides her time between the UK and California.

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    • 4/5
      This book had lots of pieces to it and at end, it finally makes sense.
    • 4/5
      I have now read several books by this author and the connection between them seems to be the tone, which is very dark. This one partially takes place in a unit for anorexics, that in itself is difficult to read, but the reason for Sam being there is heartbreaking. We know she is there for something she did as well as her anorexia, which was used as a defense, but we don't find out exactly what until the story unfolds. She tells her story to the psychiatrist who is trying to help her get released, and I liked trying to follow the clues in her story to where they lead.Not too much into psychological novels these days but do enjoy the novelty of this author and her plotlines. Tightly plotted and we'll written, I love all the twists and turns, never quite sure where this is going, but enjoy trying to guess. A foray into the dark side of tortured young people, but at the end there is a glimpse of hope.ARC from Netgalley.

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    • 5/5
      ARC provided via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

      Sam has been in the hospital for eighteen months, her body is shutting down, a welcome escape from the past and the memories that haunt her. Sam and the other patients are starving themselves, attempting to control their lives at any cost. Sam's past may be the cause, but also the cure. Through flashbacks we learn about Jena, Sam's elder sister, confined to a life in hospitals after an attack leaves her brain irreparably damaged. Desperate for the answer, Sam begins her own hunt for the criminal that stole her sister from her, but what she finds is only a dark room full of deceit.

      "Once I tell Clive the next part of the story, he'll agree. It's not just that I'm mad, I'm bad too.
      Sick to the core."

      Ruth Dugdall's My Sister and Other Liars is haunting and realistic; two sisters forever changed by an event that comes to life in the flashbacks Sam shares in therapy. Told entirely from Sam's perspective, her anger at herself, at everyone around her, bleeds from the words as she revisits the awful events that lead to her starvation. Sam is a difficult character, her hostility makes her unlikable, but her true lack of control makes you desperate for her health. She's naive, too youthful for her hardened outlook and her story breaks down those around her. Sam's perspective is narrow, her will to live is slim, but Dugdall's writing shows that those around her care and have compassion. Dugdall breaks down the disease, highlighting the many roads that lead to eating disorders for not just Sam, but the secondary characters she lives in treatment with. She showcases the highs, the lows, and the progress made as Sam faces her disease, her sister's accident, her locked up memory, and the heartbreaking reality of other's sicknesses. The events leading up to her treatment begin as hazy memories, but soon Sam is desperate to reveal her discoveries she made as amateur detective. What starts as a slow read soon takes readers on a fast-paced twisted adventure, as twists and red herrings reveal some, but not all secrets. The ending is a surprise, a chilling unveiling of the real truth that readers will be unable to guess.

      "I feel unlocked, like my heart is open and warm, and fluttering out are feelings and thoughts that had been frozen."

      My Sister and Other Liars is a horrifying tale, it's achingly painful to read, but it is every bit deserving of the praise it has received. Ruth Dugdall tells a twisted tale of secrets and lies, enticing the reader with a plot that doesn't reveal the truth until the very end. Dark and mysterious, this psychological thriller is hard to put down. It's honest take on eating disorders and the events that psychologically break down Sam makes My Sister and Other Liars a novel I highly recommend.