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In This Story Is a Lie, Tom Pollock creates a gripping psychological thriller about 17-year-old math genius Peter Blankman, who's struggling with crippling anxiety. Everything gets out of control when his scientist mother is stabbed and his twin sister Bel disappears, bringing Peter into a conspiracy including secret experiments and some crazy family secrets. As a secret agency is pursuing him, and he doesn't know who to believe, Peter must use reason, memory, and perception to discover the truth. With good plotting and an unreliable narrator, the book distorts the smudges between reality and illusion in a story of identity, mental illness, and betrayal.
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"Give in, it says. Run. Get it over with. If you don't, you'll only face the same choice in the next second and the next and the next after that. How many times do you think you can hold out?"
"Your sister's crazy. What if she doesn't ned reasons? You already asked her why once, remember? She said your mum made her mad. What if thats all there is to it? after all ... nothing 'turned her' on her first victim."
"THIS STATEMENT IS A LIE ... THIS STATEMENT IS UNPROVABLE"
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