The novel leads you to question the characters, their relationships, and what they are capable of. The story slowly unravels, revealing new layers of their relationships and their shared secret. The book takes us back to the girls’ boarding school days, explaining who they are and how they got here. Their initially joyful reunion is quickly darkened by the question hanging over their heads, why has Kate called them there? Next, the friends find Kate living in the same dilapidated house out on the foreboding reach. One morning, she receives an ominous text from her friend from school, Kate, reading simply, “I need you.” Isa, along with old pals Fatima and Thea, rush to Salten, where the attended boarding school, to come to Kate’s aid. Ware’s new novel The Lying Game is narrated by Isa, a new mother living with her partner, Owen, in London. This book club guide focuses on Ware’s 2017 novel The Lying Game. The purpose of our Book Club Guides is to recommend books for your book club and provide guidance for discussion.
The Lying Game is also a selection from Reese Witherspoon’s book club, just like Where the Crawdads Sing and The Light We Lost. Then, after spending years apart, the friends are reunited when their secret is at risk of coming to light. It tells the story of four friends bound together by a shared secret from their past. The Lying Game is a suspenseful novel by Ruth Ware, author of mystery favorites like The Woman in Cabin 10.
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