One Little Lie: An absolutely unputdownable and gripping psychological thriller

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There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good? – Jodi Picoult If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway. – Christine Feehan He wishes he too could forget, that he too could choose never to consider Caleb again. Always, he wonders why and how he has let four months – four months increasingly distant from him – so affect him, so alter his life. But then, he might as well ask – as he often does – why he has let the first 15 years of his life so dictate the past 28." This book is definitely not for everyone, but if you're up to it, you'll be thrilled by the writing. There's pain here, and beauty along with it.

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I can't tell you how harmful it is to present this narrative that people can be "too damaged" and (slight spoilers?) that suicide is the only answer. It's not just incredibly misguided it's actually incredibly damaging. It becomes clear that Jude was sexually traumatized at a very young age, making it difficult for him to engage in romantic relationships. His friends and loved ones begin questioning this isolation as he enters his forties, with Willem especially being baffled with regard to Jude's sexuality. As his loneliness grows more intense, he enters an abusive relationship with fashion executive Caleb, who is disgusted by Jude's limp and his increasing use of a wheelchair. Jude finally breaks off the relationship after Caleb rapes him, and they meet a final time when Caleb follows him to dinner with Harold, humiliates him, and then follows Jude to his apartment, where he brutally beats and rapes him, leaving him for dead. Jude nonetheless refuses to report the incident to the police, believing he deserved it. Besides Harold, only Andy – Jude's doctor and ongoing confidante – knows the truth of the failed relationship. Showbiz: Cammie-winning theatre company to stage KL's first post-MCO musical". New Straits Times. 30 July 2020. Carnegie Medals Shortlist Announced". American Libraries. October 19, 2015 . Retrieved November 15, 2015. Those promised "The Happy Years" are some of the most heartbreaking chapters I've ever read. I read another review where the person said she had to put the book down because this part of the book was too close and personal. To quote the reviewer:

‘James Norton is superb’

Every novel demands, by necessity, some suspension of disbelief. But no novel can be unbelievable. But that’s all we’re told. Four adolescents are thrown together as suitemates at a highly prestigious Cambridge college (wink, wink) and we’re told, not shown, that they effortlessly go on to become the best, the most famous—trial lawyer, actor, artist, and architect. The actor and architect might squeak by as believable, but not the trial lawyer, not the artist. From what we’re told about the trial lawyer, it’s impossible to reconcile his catastrophic, constricted, precarious little life with the cold, predatory, expert were told he is. From what we’re told about the artist, it’s impossible to believe, even in New York City’s insular and provincial art world, that the same series of portraits from photographs of the same three men over and over and over again will raise him to the top of that art world. The artists, the real ones, the author cites are all mediocre; the one she tells surely must be likewise. Hollander, Sophia (16 July 2015). "Seth Meyers's Late Night Literary Salon". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 18 July 2015.

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It may sound presumptuous to say in January that I've read the best book I've read all year, but reading is a lot like love. Sometimes you just know. The Los Angeles Times's Steph Cha remarks that " A Little Life is not misery porn; if that's what you're looking for, you will be disappointed, denied catharsis. There are truths here that are almost too much to bear – that hope is a qualified thing, that even love, no matter how pure and freely given, is not always enough. This book made me realize how merciful most fiction really is, even at its darkest, and it's a testament to Yanagihara's ability that she can take such ugly material and make it beautiful". [11] Avoid telling the town that you’ve been lied to. Inasmuch as you think it’s justified to snitch against the person who lied to you, two wrongs don’t make a right. You’ll end up stirring gossip, and making others hate your enemy is more juvenile than mature.

Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?” The story follows Jude, an orphaned child who, taken in by monastic Christians, is groomed by Brother Luke (Elliot Cowan, chilling) and violently raped by paedophiles over several years. He escapes at 15 only to fall into the clutches of a sadistic doctor (also Cowan, even more chilling). There is plenty of spurting blood, as per the headlines, but it has a ruthless integrity to it: the production is asking us to consider the effects of abuse, across a lifetime, with all its horrifying repetition.