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Black Heart Blue

Lies Like Love

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Emotive, sometimes shocking story

Some books stay with you long after you've finished them and Reid's debut is one of them. It is a moving, gripping story

Heartbreaking . . . demands to be read all at once, but will stay with you long after

Stunning, shocking, sad and incredibly touching. We are pretty sure you will read it in one sitting then want to share the book with someone else

[Lies Like Love] . . . chillingly unravels a dysfunctional relationship that threatens to destroy the love it feeds on. Reid evokes the uncertainty and joy of teenage romance with all its passion and pain and brilliantly controls the increasingly disturbing truth . . .

Young Adult Thriller

LIES 
'There were a few problems . . . bullying . . . a fire . . .' 
 
LIKE 
'I think she's verging on psychosis . . . now she's lashing out.' 
 
LOVE 
'She's got no one else to fight for her.' 
 
Fifteen year-old Audrey just wants to be normal. 
She's trying to fit in. 
But what happens when the person closest to you suffocates you with their love? 
What happens then?

'A BRILLIANT TWIST' Sunday Express 
 
Lies Like Love is the haunting and heart-breaking new novel from Louisa Reid, critically acclaimed author of Black Heart Blue. 
 
LIES 
'There were a few problems . . . bullying . . . a fire . . .' 
 
LIKE 
'I think she's verging on psychosis . . . now she's lashing out.' 
 
LOVE 
'She's got no one else to fight for her.' 
 
Sixteen year-old Audrey just wants to be normal. 
She's trying to fit in. 
But what happens when the person closest to you suffocates you with their love? 
What happens then? 
 
Praise for Louisa Reid: 
 
'Absolutely wonderful' Guardian 
 
'Emotive, sometimes shocking story' Sunday Times 
 
'A moving, gripping story' Sun 
 
'[Lies Like Love] . . . chillingly unravels a dysfunctional relationship that threatens to destroy the love it feeds on. Reid evokes the uncertainty and joy of teenage romance with all its passion and pain and brilliantly controls the increasingly disturbing truth . . .' Daily Mail 
 
'Heartbreaking . . . Demands to be read all at once, but will stay with you long after' Teri Terry, author of the Slated trilogy 
 
'Stunning, shocking, sad and incredibly touching . . . You will read it in one sitting then want to share the book with someone else' LoveReading 
 
'We read this in one sitting.' Teen Now ***** 
 
'The debut author of 2012 to watch' Film vs Book 
 
About the author: 
Louisa Reid is married with two young daughters and currently teaches English in a girls' school in Cambridge. She is originally from Cheshire, studied English at Oxford and has lived in London and Zurich. Her pupils are definitely not the inspiration for her characters in her novels but witnessing their passion for great fiction inspired her to write for young adults.

Louisa Reid is 35 years old, married with two young daughters and currently teaches English in a girls' school in Cambridge. She is originally from Cheshire, studied English at Oxford and has lived in London and Zurich. Her pupils are definitely not the inspiration for her characters in her novels but witnessing their passion for great fiction inspired her to write for young adults.

Lies Like Love

Young Adult Thriller

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Emotive, sometimes shocking story

A brilliant twist

Some books stay with you long after you've finished them and Reid's debut is one of them. It is a moving, gripping story

Absolutely wonderful

Heartbreaking . . . demands to be read all at once, but will stay with you long after

We read this in one sitting. *****

Stunning, shocking, sad and incredibly touching. We are pretty sure you will read it in one sitting then want to share the book with someone else

the debut author of 2012 to watch

Shockingly brilliant.

[Lies Like Love] . . . chillingly unravels a dysfunctional relationship that threatens to destroy the love it feeds on. Reid evokes the uncertainty and joy of teenage romance with all its passion and pain and brilliantly controls the increasingly disturbing truth . . .

About Louisa Reid

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