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 Infinite 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 first page—and will never let go.”

—Robin Wasserman, author of
The Waking Dark

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 fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. 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

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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 off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth 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

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