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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:What I Saw and How I Liedby Judy Blundell
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:When Evie's father returned home from World War II, the family fell back into its normal life pretty quickly. But Joe Spooner brought more back with him than just good war stories. When movie-star handsome Peter Coleridge, a young ex-GI who served in Joe's company in postwar Austria, shows up, Evie is suddenly caught in a complicated web of lies that she only slowly recognizes. She finds herself falling for Peter, ignoring the secrets that surround him . . . until a tragedy occurs that shatters her family and breaks her life in two.
As she begins to realize that almost everything she believed to be a truth was really a lie, Evie must get to the heart of the deceptions and choose between her loyalty to her parents and her feelings for the man she loves. Someone will have to be betrayed. The question is . . . who? Review:"Blundell, author of Star Wars novelizations, turns out a taut, noirish mystery/coming-of-age story set in 1947; it's easy to picture it as a film starring Lana Turner, who is mentioned in these pages. When first met, 15-year-old Evie and her best friend are buying chocolate cigarettes to practice smoking. Evie sheds that innocence on a trip to Florida, where her stepfather, Joe, back from the war in Europe, abruptly takes her and her beautiful mother, Beverly, and where Evie falls in love with glamorous Peter, an army buddy whom Joe is none too happy to see. But after a boating accident results in a suspicious death and an inquest, Evie is forced to revisit her romance with Peter and her relationships with Joe and her mother, and to consider that her assumptions about all three may have been wrong from the beginning. Blundell throws Evie's inexperience into high relief with slangy, retro dialogue: Peter calls Evie 'pussycat'; Beverly says her first husband 'kicked through love like it was dust and he kept on walking.' Readers can taste Evie's alienation and her yearning; it's a stylish, addictive brew. Ages 12 — up." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Review:Those craving suspense with their holiday bonbons can slip into this year's National Book Award winner. The novel is set in 1947, a time of prosperity for 15-year-old Evie. Her adored stepfather, Joe, has returned from the war to Queens with the means to start a new business. Her beautiful mother no longer has to work. But no one asks where the money has come from or why Joe, after a mysterious phone... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) Synopsis:When Evie's father returned home from World War II, the family fell back into its normal life pretty quickly. But Joe Spooner brought more back with him than just good war stories. When movie-star handsome Peter Coleridge, a young ex-GI who served in Joe's company in postwar Austria, shows up, Evie is suddenly caught in a complicated web of ilies that she only slowly recognizes. She finds herself falling for Peter, ignoring the family secrets that surround him . . . until he mysteriously drowns . Now Evie must find out what happened... and how far she'll go to protect her family. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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