Where the Truth Lies

by Jessica Warman

Overview

On the surface, Emily Meckler leads the perfect life. She has three best friends, two loving parents, and the ideal setup at the Connecticut prep school where her father is the headmaster. But Emily also suffers from devastating nightmares about fire and water, and nobody knows why. Then the enigmatic Del Sugar enters her life, and Emily is immediately swept away-but her passionate relationship with Del is just the first of many things that aren't quite what they seem in Emily's life. As the lies she's been told start to unravel, Emily must set out to discover the truth regarding her nightmare; on a journey that will lead her to question everything she thought she knew about love, family, and her own idyllic past.

This companion novel to Warman's critically acclaimed Breathless proves that sometimes the biggest lies are told to the people you love the most.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802722690
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/28/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	762 KB
Age Range:	14 Years

About the Author

JESSICA WARMAN is also the author of Walker's Breathless. She has an MA in creative writing and studied at prep school and Yale. She is in her twenties, a marathon runner, and a mother of two young girls. She lives in Pennsylvannia.
JESSICA WARMAN is also the author of Breathless, which received three starred reviews and was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and Where the Truth Lies. The idea for Between came from an incident in her childhood, when a local boy went missing after a party on a yacht (he was eventually found, alive). www.jessicawarman.com  

Editorial Reviews

Gr 8–11—Although she suffers from nightmares about fire or water that make her feel as if she is going to die, Emily Meckler, 17, knows she's lucky. Unlike her friends' parents, Emily's are happy, still married, and obviously love their daughter. They attend therapy sessions with her, and Dr. Miller continues to suggest that something in Emily's childhood may be the cause of her night terrors. Emily's father is the headmaster at Stonybrook Academy in Connecticut, and the family has lives on its grounds, which Emily loves. What more could she ask for? Then supersmart bad boy Del Sugar, an adoptee who had lived in numerous foster homes, arrives, and he brings rebellion and truth into Emily's life, changing her forever. Emily's story is compelling. Over the course of the novel she has her first romance, with Del, and she becomes pregnant. And she discovers that her parents have hidden the truth of her past from her. The plot builds slowly and, for the most part, realistically. The main characters are well developed, and Emily's thought processes as she mourns the loss of her child are particularly insightful and touching. Secondary characters add depth to the story. This book will be popular with fans of Sarah Dessen and Lurlene McDaniel.—Heather Miller Cover, Homewood Public Library, AL

School Library Journal

In this dramatic, unpredictable, romance-gone-awry companion novel to Breathless (2009), Warman only improves as she revisits the boarding-school scene. At the elite Stonybrook Academy in Connecticut, Emily Meckler routinely suffers inexplicable nightmares about fire and water, but compared to her classmates saddled with various neuroses and fighting, absent or strung-out parents, she considers herself lucky to have stable parents and her father as the headmaster. The high-school junior finds herself ready for a change, though, when sexy, mysterious Del Sugar transfers in and soon craves her attention. Despite everyone's warnings about Del's erratic behavior, Emily's once-normal life becomes a series of lies when she tries to hide her relationship and the pregnancy that ensues. As she confronts painful decisions that will affect her forever, the teen also faces newly discovered mysteries of her past, learns the complex nature of relationships, truth and family and finds the resiliency to look toward the future. Emily's unflinching, multilayered narration and realistic dialogue capture the wishes and fears that drive teens. A page-turner to the bittersweet ending. (Fiction. YA)

Kirkus Reviews