In Truth and Other Lies, debut author Maggie Smith has
written a provocative, fast-paced novel of Women’s Fiction about Megan Barnes,
a lovelorn, financially broke 25-year-old investigative journalist who is
forced to return home to Chicago, where she moves in with her mother, Helen.
Intent on regrouping and strategizing the next chapter of her life, Megan’s
plans are short-lived when she learns that her pro-life mother--once a
housewife--has surprisingly decided to run for U.S. Congress. As conservative
mother and liberal-leaning daughter lock horns, not seeing the world and issues
in it in the same light, Megan is offered a PR job to help launch a new memoir
by Jocelyn Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whom Megan has always looked
up to. Jones dangles a carrot in front of Megan: if Megan can make her book
launch a success, Jones will use her connections and get Megan a job at the
prestigious Chicago Tribune. However, in the midst of the book
launch, dark secrets--with tentacles--about Jones emerge on social media, which
ultimately ensnare Megan and test her mettle. She is forced to question
herself, the meaning of truth and her loyalties.
Smith’s propulsive, enthralling first novel is tightly plotted with
political intrigue and features three, disparate female characters who each face
thought-provoking, hot-button contemporary issues that will entice readers with
ratcheting romance and suspense--and a heart-racing conclusion.
Truth
and Lies: A Novel by Maggie Smith
Ten16Press, $18.99 paperback,
9781645382624, 360 pages
Publication Date: March
8, 2021
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