The Big Lie, Julie Mayhew
The Big Lie, Julie Mayhew
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The Big Lie

Author: Julie Mayhew

Narrator: Elizabeth Knowelden

Unabridged: 7 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 11/14/2017


Synopsis

In a gripping novel set in present-day England under a Nazi regime, a sheltered teen questions what it means to be “good”—and how far she’s willing to go to break the rules.Nazi England, 2014. Jessika Keller is a good girl—a champion ice skater, model student of the Bund Deutscher Mädel, and dutiful daughter of the Greater German Reich. Her best friend, Clementine, is not so submissive. Passionately different, Clem is outspoken, dangerous, and radical. And the regime has noticed. Jess cannot keep both her perfect life and her dearest friend, her first love. But which can she live without? Haunting, intricate, and unforgettable, The Big Lie unflinchingly interrogates perceptions of revolution, feminism, sexuality, and protest. Back matter includes historical notes from the author discussing her reasons for writing an “alt-history” story and the power of speculative fiction.

About Julie Mayhew

JULIE MAYHEW has written plays for radio and the stage and is the author of Red Ink. She is also the cofounder and host of a short-story cabaret and the head of a writers’ workshop. Julie Mayhew lives in England.


Reviews

In all honestly I should have DNF'd this book. I made the mistake of continuing to think it was going somewhere. I love dystopian books and so this alternate 'history' of the Nazi's winning WWII and what that regime would look like post-2000 sounded like a brilliant premise. And it probably still is......more

A chilling & persuasive tale of loyalty, love and choices in a Nazi occupied Britain in 2013. Julie Mayhew’s Big Lie is the bleak, but utterly compelling tale of Jessika Keller a teenage girl brought up in hard-core British Nazi family who begins to doubt the truth of what she has been told as her fr......more

Goodreads review by Carlos

This books does not have a happy ending. Think “handmaid’s tale” for teens.......more