Love and Other Lies

A story that begins as a tale of banal infidelity…
But soon becomes much more.
At once sweeping and intimate.
A profound exploration of love and lies.

Lucie is married and leads a well-ordered life. But one day, when she’s least expecting it, she meets a man who makes her lower her guard and abandon her principles.

Lucie is surprised at how fast she is drawn into her lover’s arms. She can’t help but see the echoes of her own mother’s story.

As she plunges back into her parents’ past and reopens the cracks of her identity, she takes the reader back to France and Uruguay in the Seventies. Lucie was the result of a love affair between her mother, Mathilde, and a Uruguayan doctor, Luis, who had arrived in France fleeing the dictatorship. Her mother described Luis as the *great* love of her life—even though he went back to Uruguay leaving her pregnant, never to return.

Lucie only found out about her mother’s secret when she was twenty—her mother’s betrayal and lie felt beyond comprehension.

And yet here she is now—seeking love in the arms of another man, just as her mother had before her. Does passion excuse everything? Do two lovers ever really live the same story?

Love and Other Lies is a stunning, original debut, both deep and affecting, that explores the confusing, misleading and complex nature of love.