The Lies We Don't Hear, is a novel about friendship, love, betrayal, loss and rebirth.
The protagonist, Debbie, is the fourth member of, the gang, Maggie's husband's name for them. He also called them the monstrous regiment of women, because they talked and laughed about their problems. Indeed, they laughed and laughed until they wet their knickers.
The Lies We Don't Hear, is the final novel in the quartet of novels about, Einna, Maggie, Angela and Debbie. Crocodiles And Angels, was the first novel to be published. The main protagonist is Einna, The Pavements We walk On, came next and Maggie is the protagonist. Angela's Pin was published last year, and as the title suggests, Angela is the main protagonist.
In The Lies We Don't Hear readers meet Debbie when sh's a child and travel with her through all the vagaries of her life.
Carolyn has been writing since 1986 when she taught drama at Knowsley Community College. From student improvisations she scripted performance arts pieces, two of which achieved Pick Of The Day in The Scotsman.
She has had several short stories and poems published in magazines and anthologies and during lockdown, a couple of plays performed by a group of actors on Zoom.
Recently, Write Now Publications have issued her children's picture book, Tod Martin Hullabaloo, about a fish who believed he couldn't swim. It was illustrated by Kate Dickie.
I hope you enjoy The Lies We Don't Hear. I shall aim to put a chapter a week on Wattpad.
Seventeen year old Araba Dadzie suspects her parents, who have a strong dislike for her best friend Emma Woodburn, might be planning something sinister against her. She will do whatever means necessary to protect her friendship from them, even if that leads to someone dying.
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Childhood bestfriends Emma Woodburn and Araba Dadzie have shared a long history of laughs together and have sworn to never let anything come between them. They promise to be in eachother's lives till they're old enough to raise families and age gracefully. When they both start working as interns on a late night comedy show, Araba's relationship with her parents take a downward spiral. Her hatred for them takes a whole new level. If shooting stars were real, she'd wish her parents would vanish out of her life for good. What's worse, is that they want her and everyone else to believe they're trying to be good parents, while masking the awful people they truly are.
She believes they are coming in between her relationship with Emma and even worse, there might be something sinister at play. Araba becomes very suspicious of her uncle whom she never wants to speak to again, as he forcefully tries to get her attention. Simultaneously, this happens while Araba's mother begins stalking them as well, making Emma and her mother start to feel very unsafe with Araba.
As tension rises between both families, Araba realizes she will have to use any deadly means necessary to protect the bond she has with her bestfriend and her mother, who are the only people who have ever loved her. At what lengths will she go in doing so? What shocking secrets have her uncle and parents been keeping this whole time, and would Araba ever find out before the deed is done?
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