Lie With Me by Sabine Durrant
It all begins with a lie. The kind we have all told—to a long-lost friend we can’t quite place but feel compelled to impress anyhow. Our life’s narrative has been enhanced for the lawyer who is happily married and has a family as well as a beautiful home.
And before you know it, you’re having dinner at their house and accepting an invitation to go on vacation with them. You’re caught up in their ideal life, the one you’ve always imagined.
It ultimately proves to be less than ideal. However, by the time you’re suffocating in the scorching Greek heat, choking to escape the tension all around you — by the time you start to understand that, despite how painful the truth may be, it’s the lies that actually do the most harm — it might already be too late.
Lie With Me by Sabine Durrant
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Paul Morris receives a holiday invitation for himself. He dreams of spending his free summer vacation in a Greek villa. He likes the hostess a lot and believes he has a shot. Therefore, he joyfully travels to Pyros, an island where he had a wild binge ten years before but doesn’t recall much of.
He returns there and cheerfully squanders his time with the family in this wonderful property. He initially thinks he is in charge and is the one controlling the events, but as the book progresses, we realize that he is actually the one being controlled, and our sympathies shift.
Paul has a strategy. He is determined to realize his vision of a better future.
No harm is done if concealing or embellishing a few details here and there.
But when he successfully gains admission to a family vacation…
and discovers himself enmeshed in conflicts and feelings he doesn’t comprehend…
By the time he begins to understand that the lies—rather than the terrible truth—are what actually harm people,
Then then, it might already be too late.
Paul Morris, the primary character, is a man with a highly negative personality. I usually enjoy the main character who is disliked, and he is hateful from the start. He is sexist, egotistical, and vain. He is a freeloader who always believes in the effectiveness of his own charm. As a result, even though we despise him from the beginning, at the conclusion we find ourselves cheering for him. And the reason for this is that throughout the novel, he remains loyal to himself and maintains his integrity, while we gradually come to see that those around him lack integrity because they are not who they say they are.
