Praise for we were liars “You’re going to want to remember the title. Liars details the summers of a girl who harbors a dark secret, and delivers a satisfying but shocking twist ending.” —Breia Brissey, Entertainment Weekly *“[A] searing story … At the center of it is a girl who learns the hardest way of all what family means, and what it means to lose the one that really mattered to you.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred *“Surprising, thrilling, and beautifully executed in spare, precise, and lyrical prose. Lockhart spins a tragic family drama, the roots of which go back generations. And the ending? Shhhh. Not telling. (But it’s a doozy.) … This is poised to be big.” —Booklist, Starred “A haunting tale about how families live within their own mythologies. Sad, wonderful, and real.” —Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies and Leviathan “Spectacular.” —Lauren Myracle, author of Shine, The In�nite Moment of Us, and TTYL “A haunting, brilliant, beautiful book. This is E. Lockhart at her mind-blowing best.” —Sarah Mlynowski, author of Don’t Even Think About It and Gimme a Call “Dark, gripping, heartrending, and terrifyingly smart, this book grabs you from the �rst page—and will never let go.” —Robin Wasserman, author of The Waking Dark Also by e. lockhart The Ruby Oliver Novels The Boyfriend List The Boy Book The Treasure Map of Boys Real Live Boyfriends • • • Fly on the Wall Dramarama The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks How to Be Bad (written with Sarah Mlynowski and Lauren Myracle) This is a work of �ction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used �ctitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Text copyright © 2014 by E. Lockhart Jacket photograph © 2014 Getty Images/kang-gg Map and family tree art copyright © 2014 by Abigail Daker All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York. Delacorte Press is a registered trademark and the colophon is a trademark of Random House LLC. Visit us on the Web! randomhouse.com/teens Educators and librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, visit us at RHTeachersLibrarians.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data We were liars / E. Lockhart. — First edition. pages cm Summary: Spending the summers on her family’s private island o� the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her �fteenth summer. ISBN 978-0-385-74126-2 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-375-98994-0 (library binding) — ISBN 978-0-375-98440-2 (ebook) — ISBN 978-0-385-39009-5 (intl. tr. pbk.) [1. Friendship—Fiction. 2. Love—Fiction. 3. Families—Fiction. 4. Amnesia—Fiction. 5. Wealth—Fiction.] I. Title. PZ7.L79757We 2014 [Fic]—dc23 201342127 Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read. v3.1_r6 For Daniel
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