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The Lie Tree (Paperback)
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The Lie Tree (Paperback)

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Paperback 416 Pages
Published: 07/05/2015

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Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015
Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2015 

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 ...

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781447264101
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 297 g
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 25 mm
Edition: Unabridged edition

Instantly recognisable from her trademark collection of black hats, British author Frances Hardinge is one of the most acclaimed and inventive writers of her generation. Her works include Fly By Night, the Costa Book Award-winning The Lie Tree and the Waterstones Book of the Year-shortlisted A Skinful of Shadows. Her latest novel, Deeplight, is published in October 2019.

Visit the Frances Hardinge author page

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“The Lie Tree”

I read lots of different types of books so being the costa children's book winner didn't put me off as I love books by Eva Ibbotson . It was a very dark story even pictured everything in black and white as I... More

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Emma - Edinburgh Fort Kinnaird

“Beautifully written!”

As soon as this was announced as the winner of the Costa Book Prize I HAD to buy it!

I'll be honest and say it took me a while to finish it as, although it was enjoyable, I just felt it was lacking in... More

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Harriet Hughes at Lancaster

“A Creepy Gothic Mystery”

'The Lie Tree' started a little slowly but then got better and better as the complexities of the mystery began to unfold. I particularly liked the hallucinatory visions with dinosaurs. And the people made of... More

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