All My Lies Are True by Dorothy Koomson

Verity is telling lies...
And that's why she's about to be arrested for attempted murder.

Serena has been lying for years. . .
And that may have driven her daughter, Verity, to do something unthinkable...

Poppy's lies have come back to haunt her . . .
So will her quest for the truth hurt everyone she loves?

Everyone lies.
But whose lies are going to end in tragedy?

Title: All My Lies Are True

Author:  Dorothy Koomson

Published By: Amazon

Publication Date: 9th July 2020

Links: UK: Amazon   US:  Amazon



Our Review

OMG! Stunning, Shocking, this book knocked me speechless. It also took me through every emotion, so much so that I wanted to scream, throw the book and actually wish a lot of nastiness to one of these characters.

I really don't want to give too much away but the Ice Cream Girls as they are known really deserve to be left alone to get on with their lives after what they've been through but someone close to them stirs everything up again in the most horrendous way and with the most horrific consequences.

I don't know that much about coercive control but I think everyone needs to read this book for a perfect example of how it works.

Serena and Poppy were abused and groomed by their teacher in the previous book 'The Ice Cream Girls,' and he ended up dead. One of them went to jail for it and the other one didn't which has caused a lot of contention in the past. Instead of them being seen as abuse victims they were blamed for what happened and this shines a spotlight on what's been happening in the real world.

When Serena feels her daughter Verity is slipping away from her she has no idea of the extent to which this situation is headed and takes the blame upon herself for trying to protect her children.But that all backfires.

I really can't find words good enough for this important novel which clearly shows the pain caused when a person is being groomed and isolated from their family and all the repercussions on everybody else. 

This book is hard hitting and exposes misogyny and abuse at it's very worst. Dorothy Koomson really puts her characters through their paces and just when you think it's all over, it kicks in the solar plexus and has you shouting Nooooooooooooooooo.

This book is the sequel to the Ice Cream Girls so I highly suggest you read that first and then move onto this but I guarantee you will have steam coming out of your ears at the injustice served up by one of these characters. An utterly brilliant psychological thriller, Dorothy Koomson has not held back here, this writing is fearless and not to be missed.

Sincerely

Book Angel x

About the Author

Dorothy Koomson is the award-winning author of 15 novels and has been making up stories since she was 13 when she used to share her stories with her convent school friends. Her published titles include: Tell Me Your Secret, The Brighton Mermaid, The Friend, When I Was Invisible, That Girl From Nowhere, The Flavours of Love, The Woman He Loved Before, Goodnight, Beautiful and The Chocolate Run.

Dorothy’s first novel, The Cupid Effect, was published in 2003 (when she was quite a bit older than 13). Her third book, My Best Friend’s Girl, was selected for the Richard & Judy Summer Reads of 2006 and went on to sell over 500,000 copies. While her fourth novel, Marshmallows For Breakfast, has sold in excess of 250,000 copies. Dorothy’s books, The Ice Cream Girls and The Rose Petal Beach were both shortlisted for the popular fiction category of the British Book Awards in 2010 and 2013, respectively.

Dorothy’s novels have been translated into over 30 languages, and a TV adaptation loosely based on The Ice Cream Girls was shown on ITV1 in 2013. After briefly living in Australia, Dorothy now lives in Brighton.

In 2019 Dorothy was awarded the Image Award by The Black British Business Awards to celebrate and honour her achievements.

For more information on Dorothy Koomson visit www.dorothykoomson.co.uk