Crime & mystery
The Audacious Mendacity of Lily Green
by Shelley Weiner
Description
On her thirty-fourth birthday Lily Green tells her mother a lie. It is her first one ever and it’s life-changing. ‘I’m engaged to be married,’ she blurts out, and discovers that telling a lie can make things happen and – amazingly for such a dull soul – she’s good at it. On the wings of deception she soars from her mundane terraced cottage in Hatch End to the glitziest hotel in London. Along the way she locates her candidate for matrimony: a good-looking young man called Tom, who seems to fall for her tall stories and physical charms. But who is Tom really? Is he the simple and gullible soul he appears to be? As for Lily’s mother, Eva, an archetypal card-playing suburbanite – who is she when the web of deceit that entangles them all is unpicked? The outcome of the revelations is dramatic, catastrophic – and liberating. THE AUDACIOUS MENDACITY OF LILY GREEN is a darkly comic tale about loneliness, desperation, and the power of self-reinvention. Through her mastery of the art of lying, Lily Green discovers the meaning of truth and love.
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Author Biography
Shelley Weiner is an acclaimed novelist, short-story writer and journalist who has, over the years, established a reputation as an inspirational creative writing tutor and nurturer of new talent. South African-born, she worked as a journalist, PR writer and editor in a publishing house before turning to fiction. Among her published novels is A Sisters' Tale, The Last Honeymoon, The Joker Arnost, and - most recently - The Audacious Mendacity of Lily Green. Shelley is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund and has lectured on the writing programme at Birkbeck College and Anglia Ruskin University. She has also taught for the Open University, the Taliesin Trust and Durham University Summer School. She is a tutor for the Skyros Writers' Lab, a sought-after mentor on the Gold Dust programme, and an evaluator of manuscripts for The Literary Consultancy. She delivered a workshop at the 2012 Cheltenham Literature Festival, and a Guardian Masterclass on The Art of Fiction. Scores of new fiction writers, several of them now published, have emerged from her "First Novel" workshops in Camden Town, Wales and in her Highgate kitchen. For more about Shelley see www.shelleyweiner.com
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- Publisher/Imprint Caffeine Nights Publishing / Caffeine Nights
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781907565205
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 8.99 GBP
- Pages261
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions198 x 129 mm
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