Describe your latest book.
The book I've just finished writing is
The Lying Game, which is due out this month. It's about four women who meet at Salten House, a second-rate boarding school on the south coast of England. The title comes from a game the girls played at school, competing to tell lies to gullible friends, strangers, classmates, and teachers. They were expelled in their final year at school, and since then have scattered, doing their best to forget the events of that year, while still being held together by their pull.
When something washes up on a local beach, however, three of the women get a text from the fourth in their clique, Kate, the only one of them still living down near the school. It says simply, "I need you." And so they drop everything — lives, children, careers — and return to Salten...