<i>The Lie Tree</i> is brilliant: dark, thrilling, utterly original. Everyone should read Frances Hardinge. Everyone. Right now.

- Patrick Ness, author of <i>A Monster Calls</i>,

<i>The Lie Tree</i> is a wonder. I can't think of anyone who would not love this story.

- Matt Haig, author of <i>The Midnight Library</i> and <i>The Life Impossible</i>,

I loved this book so much.

- Lucy Mangan,

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Complex and intelligent: a lustrous, delicious romp.

- Philip Womack, The Telegraph

Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015.

Read by actress Emilia Fox, The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative and atmospheric novel by Frances Hardinge, award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly By Night.

Faith's father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, and as she is searching through his belongings for clues she discovers a strange tree. The tree only grows healthy and bears fruit if you whisper a lie to it. The fruit of the tree, when eaten, will deliver a hidden truth to the person who consumes it. The bigger the lie, the more people who believe it, the bigger the truth that is uncovered.

The girl realizes that she is good at lying and that the tree might hold the key to her father's murder, so she begins to spread untruths far and wide across her small island community. But as her tales spiral out of control, she discovers that where lies seduce, truths shatter . . .

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A deliciously creepy novel from Frances Hardinge, the award-winning author of <i>Cuckoo Song </i>and <i>Fly By Night.</i>
The Lie Tree The leaves were cold and slightly clammy. There was no mistaking them. She had seen their likeness painstakingly sketched in her father's journal. This was his greatest secret, his treasure and his undoing. The Tree of Lies. Now it was hers, and the journey he had never finished stretched out before her. When Faith's father is found dead under mysterious circumstances, she is determined to untangle the truth from the lies. Searching through his belongings for clues she discovers a strange tree. A tree that feeds off whispered lies and bears fruit that reveals hidden secrets. The bigger the lie, and the more people who believe it, the bigger the truth that is uncovered. But as Faith's untruths spread like wildfire across her small island community, she discovers that sometimes a single lie is more potent than any truth. A beguiling tale of mystery and intrigue from the award-winning author of Fly By Night and Cuckoo Song
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A deliciously creepy novel from Frances Hardinge, the award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly By Night, read by Emilia Fox

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781509867622
Publisert
2017-09-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Macmillan Digital Audio
Vekt
271 gr
Høyde
140 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
J, 02
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
LydCD

Forfatter
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Om bidragsyterne

Frances Hardinge spent a large part of her childhood in a huge old house that inspired her to write strange stories from an early age. She read English at Oxford University, then got a job at a software company. However, a few years later a persistent friend finally managed to bully Frances into sending a few chapters of Fly by Night, her first children's novel, to a publisher. Macmillan made her an immediate offer. The book went on to publish to huge critical acclaim and win the Branford Boase First Novel Award. She has been nominated for, and won several other awards, being shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal for Cuckoo Song and winning the coveted Costa Book of the Year Award for The Lie Tree.

Emilia Fox is a British actress best known for her role of Dr. Nikki Alexander on BBC crime drama Silent Witness. She was born in Hammersmith and also read Frances Hardinge's latest novel, A Skinful of Shadows.