The Truth and Lies of Ella Black
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Ella Black seems to live the life most other seventeen-year-olds would kill for . . .
Until one day, telling her nothing, her parents whisk her off to Rio de Janeiro. Determined to find out why, Ella takes her chance and searches through their things.
And realises her life has been a lie.
Her mother and father aren't hers at all. Unable to comprehend the truth, Ella runs away, to the one place they'll never think to look - the favelas.
But there she learns a terrible secret - the truth about her real parents and their past. And the truth about a mother, desperate for a daughter taken from her seventeen years ago . . .
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A dazzling, sensitive study of teenage mental illness and family secrets, Emily Barr’s novel is a breathless read. Our titular heroine, Ella Black, is a 17-year-old tortured by a potent and ill-intentioned split personality. She’s able to keep “Bella” under control, until one day her parents whisk her off to Rio de Janeiro without a word of explanation. From here, Barr spins a sensational tale we wanted to race through in one sitting: there’s helter-skelter action, devastating revelations and incisive prose that sets new standards for young-adult fiction.
