forthcoming books

The Perfect Lie

The Perfect Lie will be published by Headline early in 2010.

Lucy lives in Cornwall. She has a partner, and a job in a waterside pub, and she has friends. Her life is perfect: it just happens to be a lie.

One day, she climbs a cliff to rescue a child. A stranger on the beach points a camera at her, and the footage ends up on television. Lucy’s life unravels, and she flees across Europe, desperate to stay one step ahead of a figure from her past.

Set in Cornwall and Venice, this book has taken over my life for the past year and is at the final editing stage. A long time ago, it involved a gorgeous research trip to Italy, followed by many months sitting in a room staring at a screen.