The Truth and Lies of Ella Black
$38.06
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2018
Summary
This second novel from Emily Barr is a race-against-time thriller and a true coming-of-age story. It explores the highs and lows of first love, all set under a blazing Rio sun.
Ella Black seems to live the life most other seventeen-year-olds would kill for …
Until one day, telling her nothing, her parents whisk her off to Rio de Janeiro. Determined to find out why, Ella takes her chance and searches through their things. And realises her life has been a lie.
Unable to …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141367002 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141367008 |
| Author: | Emily Barr |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 247g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
Barr is superb at evoking the heightened emotions of adolescence: the exhilarating thrill of first love, the intensity of fear and rage at adults’ deception and the need to discover one’s own identity.
With disturbing undertones, vivid characters and authentic dialogue, this is a worthy successor to her wonderful debut, The One Memory of Flora Banks
Evoking Ella’s intoxicating new surroundings while skewering the facile assumptions of “poverty tourism”, Barr’s second YA novel is a fast-paced, dramatic search for answers to the secrets of the self * Guardian *
Colourful setting and pacy plot. If you like dark fiction you’ll devour it * Heat *
Emily Barr already proved she could hit all the right teen-fiction notes in last year’s The One Memory of Flora Banks. This taps the same vein. Ella’s parents are doting to the point of smothering but they don’t know about the dark and twisty part of her that threatens to destroy everything * i *
About The Author
Emily Barr
Emily Barr is the author of The One Memory of Flora Banks, her first novel for young adults, which was a global hit published in 27 languages. Before that, she worked as a journalist in London but always wanted to write. A year of travel gave her the idea for Backpack, an adult thriller which won the WH Smith New Talent Award. She has since written many young adult and adult books. She lives in Cornwall with her husband and their children.
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