Sweet Lies - Catherine O'Connor

"Сладкие лжи"

Меган, будучи уязвимой девочкой, обратилась за поддержкой к сильному и привлекательному Дэрроу. Он говорил ей сладкие слова о защите, доверии и любви, а затем оставил ее. Она собиралась рассказать ему о ребенке, когда он вернется... но он так и не вернулся. Теперь сын Меган подросток, и Дэрроу снова появляется в ее жизни! Он верит лжи, которую она придумала о муже, которого никогда не было - она придумала ее, чтобы защитить своего сына и сохранить свою гордость. Но почему эта история так сильно разозлила его? И какова была правда за их расставанием все эти годы назад?

Sweet Lies by Catherine O’Connor

When impoverished but gifted teenager Megan (not the greatest name) Dwyer met handsome, charming — and older — musician Darrow Cawley, the two fell madly in love. They elevated the idea of a glorious future together with fantasies of owning a jazz club one day and crisscrossing the country on tour together. It was, as one could say, a convincing tale that moved forth in its earnest way towards devious deceptions. Megan tells Darrow she’s engaged but deep down is only hiding from her aging and abusive alcoholic father. She persuades Darrow to prospect local talent and hire a backing band for their upcoming co-headlining slot with his own group, Devoted Souls. Darrow aids Megan in setting up a sleeping arrangement with an older friend who happens to have an extra spare room at his house. Maggie MacTiernan is just a waitress at a nearby diner and — notably — taken in by a flirtatious relationship with the band’s drummer. We follow Megan and Maggie through an impressive tale filled with explosive breakdowns, personal confidences, betrayal — a true story of harsh reality, poetry, and singularity. Today, this four-time-USA Today Bestselling author of Yard Sale, Don’t Lie, and Dear Dead Husband sit down with me on my backyard patio, overlooking chemical greenhouses and up into the slender foothills that lead to Aspen/Groveland each mountain coldly indicating this shall be a tale with few happy endings. Catherine has grown up poor, Japanese American, in Hawaii’s countryside, and has managed to truly know the life-altering difficulties attached to that reality. O’Connor has also witnessed hurts, mistakes, and longing for love in an interwoven manner, carved deeply from familiar and intimate situations like no one else, appealing not because of awareness but because it’s etched off of her flesh like tears or blisters. She writes with warmth, never losing sight of the narrowness of perspective, and her writing reminds me of John Gillis’ meticulously rendered stories set against the Pacific Northwest woods. While making connections between invisible consequences, we find moments of breathless delusion—that hook of wondering, ‘what if’. In Sweet Lies and previous works, O’Connor assiduously explores love (or more accurately, unrequited love) as it is both idiotic and bold. Although it follows in the same claws as typical 47-year-old miscast fairytales, Sweet Lies is O’Connor’s attempt at revisiting a conviction that true love exists, that it might be located and offering up a tender and enraged confrontation with it. Trendy movies like Pretty Little Liars have terrorized our dreams with young women behaving distinctly as dystopian versions of themselves in multitudes of devices, while researchers wonder if proximity to a supposedly threatening reality makes us compel to resolve conflicts by adopting formulas with dysfunctional solutions rather than develop new perspectives or deal the harm on our own terms. In Sweet Lies , Catherine O’Connor takes the reader through a relatable, wrenching self scrutinize—the fictional is deeply intertwined with truth because ultimately, who we really are may reside in how we respond to our desires, our mammals desires. There’s something breathtaking and starkly human about O’Connor in her candid writing on scars that clash with warm, almost unnervingly honest depictions of loss, heartbreak, and devotion. This is a book of lingering haunting, broken realization, discovery, unspeakable news—a tale that strips away familiarity and takes in all that we share, all that she endures, to reveal hidden depths of human connection. While reading, I contemplated distance between perfect stories and real life. Sometimes everything seems too unreasonably well aligned to be real — far from life scattered beauty, and solitary stardom, or committed love. Though perhaps this feeling is every writer and reader. A writer, like Catherine O’Conner, must learn to pin down that trouble, to practice showing both out-of-date simplicity and compassionate complexity…Sweet Lies details O’Connor ’ s remarkable work with poetical tools, uninching writing, and undeniable clear spirit of creating a Reader, Love, Check up, More Love style novel. Indeed, Sweet Lies infuses the obstinate ache with radical credibility, encouraging us to care and meditate, and to see ourselves in ways not necessarily easy to accept.

Опираясь на приведенное автором описание можно сказать, что роман um Дженнифер O’Коннор «Сладкая ложь» повествует о том, как бесчувственный, эгоистичный, расчетливый и злой молодой человек обесчестил и покинул юную Мег Нилон, мужу которой он однажды признался в любви.

Электронная Книга «Sweet Lies» написана автором Catherine O'Connor в году.

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Язык: Английский

Серии: Mills & Boon Modern

ISBN: 9781472031280

As a vulnerable girl, Megan turned to strong, handsome Darrow for support. He'd given her sweet words of protection, and trust, and love– and then he'd left her. She was going to tell him about the baby when he came back…but he never did.Now Megan's son is a teenager and Darrow is back in her life! He believes the lie she's told about the husband she never had– she made it up to protect her son and save her pride. But why does the story anger him so much? And what was the truth behind their breakup all those years ago?