After the Lie

By: Kerry Fisher

Narrated by: Emma Spurgin-Hussey

Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's summary

When Lydia was a teenager, she made a decision that ruined her family's life. They've spent the last 30 years living with the consequences and doing their best to pretend it never happened.

Lydia's husband, the gorgeous and reliable Mark, and her two teenage children know nothing about that summer back in 1982. And that's the way Lydia wants it to stay. The opportunity to come clean is long gone, and now it's not the lie that matters; it's the betrayal of hiding the truth for so long.

When someone from the past turns up as a parent at the school gates, Lydia feels the life she has worked so hard to build slipping through her fingers. The more desperate she becomes to safeguard her family, the more erratic her behaviour becomes. But when the happiness of her own teenage son, Jamie, hangs in the balance, Lydia is forced to make some impossible decisions. Can she protect him and still keep her own secret - and if she doesn't, will her marriage and family survive?

©2016 Kerry Fisher (P)2017 Audible, Ltd

Captivating & relatable!

I absolutely loved listening to this book. The narrator’s voice was perfect. Kerry’s witty way of writing made me laugh many times and her motherly worries about her children’s exposure to today’s social media is equal to my own.

I’m on to her next book!

Complex issues

I love this author. She always seems to articulate complex family issues in such a way that I find so interesting. The story has some complex elements and was woven together beautifully. There was unexpected turns. I really liked it.

LOVED this book.

The story was so engrossing . Exploring the effects covering up a lie since childhood had on Lydia ' s entire life were fascinating. More Kerry Fisher, please.

lesson learned

I loved the book. The truth of not holding on to lies is such an important lesson to learn. Also giving support to family members during difficult times is also a great lesson to be learned.

Amazing story

Couldn’t put this book down.
Loved it! Highly recommend this book to others. Great book club choice too.

Relatable

Great story in this day of socio media . Love the humor - despite the serious situation. Really enjoyed this story

Excellent from beginning to end

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I'd definitely recommend this book. The characters were sympathetic but also realistically flawed. The secret that is the essential part of the story seemed believable and I could relate to the character's fear of "coming clean". This was in sharp contrast to many of the recent books that have characters keeping secrets in an attempt to create conflict and tension.. Those secrets just annoy me. These secrets were psychologically astute and might even help people explore their own issues of secrecy vs honesty.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Because the author drew in depth characters I find it hard to describe who my favorite character was. No good guy -- bad guy.

Have you listened to any of Emma Spurgin-Hussey’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I have not read this narrator before but she did an excellent job.

If you could rename After the Lie, what would you call it?

After the Lie is a fine name but a more descriptive title would be "Before the Lie - During the Lie - and After the Lie"

engaging

i always need a good dog walking book to keep me going. i found this to be an easy listen like a soap opera. l liked the performance very much, i love british accents.
good listen, i recommend.

Is truth the best way to go

I could feel lydia's lie and how it took a lot of strengto carry it. It became very stressful and put up a wall between and everyone.

bad narration

Narrator speaks in a monotone. She makes it difficult to keep focus on the story. The monotone narration takes away from the story.