What I Saw and How I Lied, Judy Blundell
What I Saw and How I Lied, Judy Blundell
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What I Saw and How I Lied

Author: Judy Blundell

Narrator: Caitlin Greer

Unabridged: 6 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2009

Synopsis

This National Book Award winner set during the aftermath of WWII is now available in paperback!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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kat Kennedy on September 06, 2011

There are good novels and then there are good novels. This one is the latter. However, it's hard to pin down why it's such an amazing novel. Sure, I could comment that the writing was flawless and brilliant. The characters were fleshed out, detailed and intricate. The setting was technicoloured, nost......more

Goodreads review by karen on June 25, 2020

stay tuned, there will be mary lou retton if you are patient.... so first of all, i love this title. i was supposed to read three books from the list for this week's teen class; i ended up reading five because i am such a super-nerd, but i think it is good for me, because these aren't the types of te......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie *Eff your feelings* on September 30, 2012

What I Saw and How I lied is not going to end up as one of those books that returns to my thoughts now and again. It's perfectly forgettable. This is a coming of age book set at the end of World War 2. Evie is a teen who's step father, Joe, has just come back from the war and he's not exactly the man......more

Goodreads review by Allison on December 08, 2008

QUESTION? How did this win the National Book Award? If the first half of the book had been put into 3-or-so chapters so that the reader could get to the things that happen in the story, it would have been a lot better. I'm so glad that I finally finished it so I can stop sighing through an award win......more

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