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A Book of Untruths
About this book
A Book of Untruths is a family story told through a series of lies. Each short chapter features one of these lies and each lie builds to form a picture of a life-Miranda Doyle's life as she struggles to understand her complicated family and her own place within it.
This is a book about love, family and marriage. It is about the fallibility of human beings and the terrible things we do to one another. It is about the ways we get at-or avoid-the truth. And it is about storytelling itself: how we build a sense of ourselves and our place in the world.
A Book of Untruths is a surprising, shocking and invigorating book that edges towards the truth through an engagement with falsehood. It brings questions to its readers; not answers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Lie 1: I didnāt do it
- Lie 2: I am lying
- Lie 3: Itās an ulcer
- Lie 4: Youāve beated me to it
- Lie 5: Iām number three
- Lie 6: I looked it up on Google
- Lie 7: Memoir is non-fiction
- Lie 8: Happy families
- Lie 9: Itās people crying that puts Dad in a bad mood
- Lie 10: He married well
- Lie 11: Weāve posted you a present
- Lie 12: We donāt have favourites
- Lie 13: Iām the most hard-done-by
- Lie 14: Iām your only girl
- Lie 15: One day Iāll run off and join the circus
- Lie 16: Maās gone to get the messages
- Lie 17: Iāve lost my mother
- Lie 18: The man will come with big scissors and cut off your thumb
- Lie 19: The Da was taken
- Lie 20: I will not cry
- Lie 21: I didnāt peek at Barney
- Lie 22: All he needs is a firm hand
- Lie 23: Being good makes things better
- Lie 24: One day youāll move into the Big House
- Lie 25: Theyāre pestering me to have another baby
- Lie 26: I am your father
- Lie 27: The Saudis are all bloody incompetent
- Lie 28: Iām leaving you
- Lie 29: Weāre staying together for the children
- Lie 30: I donāt remember
- Lie 31: I forgot
- Lie 32: Iām Selina
- Lie 33: School is really nice
- Lie 34: There will be no morning run
- Lie 35: That woman is ill-disciplined
- Lie 36: I have never enjoyed taking a poo
- Lie 37: Iām going home
- Lie 38: I couldnāt get him to change his mind
- Lie 39: I hate Dinah
- Lie 40: Thereās nothing I can do
- Lie 41: One day Iāll report him
- Lie 42: That was entirely inappropriate
- Lie 43: Iām going to kill myself
- Lie 44: It wonāt happen to my child
- Lie 45: I am frigid
- Lie 46: Jesus knows best
- Lie 47: This is the toughest letter Iāve ever had to write
- Lie 48: Iāll take her home
- Lie 49: I deserved it
- Lie 50: Will you go out with me?
- Lie 51: Nemo me impune lacessit
- Lie 52: Iām Sylvie
- Lie 53: I want a relationship
- Lie 54: I just wanted to return his pullover
- Lie 55: Honestly it wonāt be so bad
- Lie 56: Weāre spending quality time together
- Lie 57: Marriage is all I want
- Lie 58: We parent together
- Lie 59: Youāll be fine
- Lie 60: Let me tell you a secret
- Lie 61: Weāll see you for your second course of chemotherapy in a monthās time
- Lie 62: We agreed a story and she carried it off well
- Lie 63: The testes are unremarkable
- Lie 64: I am good
- Lie 65: It was just a joke
- Lie 66: Jesus loves me
- Lie 67: No it wasnāt misgusting
- Lie 68: Stickers are fair
- Lie 69: Itās not easy for me to do this
- Lie 70: Always tell the truth
- Lie 71: Iād just have to kill some people
- Lie 72: With my body I thee worship
- Afterword
- Acknowledgements
- Sources
- About the Author
- Copyright