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The Truth and Lies of Ella Black

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141367002

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 245g

  • RRP: £7.99

The Truth and Lies of Ella Black

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.

Her mother and father aren't hers at all. Unable to comprehend the truth, Ella runs away, to the one place they'll never think to look - the favelas.

But there she learns a terrible secret - the truth about her real parents and their past. And the truth about a mother, desperate for a daughter taken from her seventeen years ago . . .

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141367002

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 245g

  • RRP: £7.99

Reviews

  • 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

    Daily Mail

  • 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

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About the Author

Emily Barr

THE ONE MEMORY OF FLORA BANKS published in 2017 was Emily Barr's first novel for young adults and was a global hit, publishing in 27 languages. Before that, she worked as a journalist in London but always hankered after a quiet room and a book to write. She went travelling for a year, which gave her an idea for a novel set in the world of backpackers in Asia. This became BACKPACK, an adult thriller which won the WH Smith New Talent Award, and she has since written eleven more adult novels published in the UK and around the world. She lives in Cornwall with her husband and their children.

Emily Barr

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The One Memory of Flora Banks

Flora has amnesia. But tonight something new is happening. Something she might just remember forever. Read the first few pages of Emily Barr's brand new thriller for young adults.

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