Book Review: The Liar's Daughter

When Eva, taking a break from her work as a ranger to help her stepmom out to take care of her dementia-afflicted father, receives an unexpected surprise from a hospital about a sister that she didn't know existed for two decades, the revelation, needless to say, knocks the family off its axis, and her life off-kilter, pushing her on a quest to know the mysterious circumstances surrounding her mother's death and her sister's supposed suicide. Turns out, news of her sister is just the tip of a very massive iceberg. Although fully-realised characters are thin on the ground, author Rona Halsall deftly juggles past and present through the eyes of Eva and her sister Nancy, while slowly doling out the plot twists, some of them small, some sizeable, and one so satisfying that it turns the entire story inside out. This is a book that proves you don't have to reinvent the wheel to build a new road.