Alessandra is reading…

The Lies We Told by Camilla Way – Book Review

Clara’s boyfriend disappears, and most assume that he’s left her. Through continuous digging, Clara learns that Luke has a stalker and the police become involved as Luke’s disappearance skyrockets into a case.

They were ordinary men, not monsters leaping out of bushes: friends, boyfriends, colleagues, getting drunk, getting carried away. A bit selfish. A bit entitled.

I like how this book shows that nothing is as it seems. People put on a facade for others and we shouldn’t assume we know everything about other peoples’ lives. Even if we do know big secrets, what we think they’re hiding could be totally different from what they’re actually hiding.

My jaw kept dropping during the reveals. The family dysfunction is crazy plus the HUGE secrets. This book definitely distracted me from my own dramas of wedding planning.

The moon hidden now behind thick clouds. From somewhere in the fields beyond our street came the solitary scream of a fox, before it, too, lapsed back into silence.

The foxes that kept coming up were a little reminder to me that even though England is so far away, there are still similarities between there and here. And there are similarities with all other countries – we can be so far away but our humanity and nature bind us all the same.

Read on and enjoy the rest of your day wherever you are.