Telling Liddy

The Palmer sisters have always been close, agreeing that loyalty to one another outweighs loyalties to boyfriends and lovers and husbands. Until now.

For three of the four have heard a nasty rumour about Liddy’s new man and Bridie, a social worker, insists that Liddy must be told. The decision proves disastrous in ways that no one could possibly have imagined. Out creep the secrets and lies that once held the family together and are about to split it viciously apart. With surgical precision and wry intelligence Anne Fine exposes the claustrophobic and potentially duplicitous nature of close family relationships, and the final revelations are more than anyone bargained for.

Praise for Telling Liddy

'There are few writers who so cleverly portray family life and its small joys and desperate torments' - Scotland on Sunday

'Mercilessly funny ... an intricate plot in which adultery, betrayal and small, meaner secrets are revealed' - Mail on Sunday

'A perspicacious and terrible, wise and embarrassing novel: so much of it shameful, all of it true' - Julie Myerson, Independent on Sunday