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Truth Or Dare
1998
First Published
3.09
Average Rating
256
Number of Pages

Nominated for a Saltire Award, Truth or Dare is a comic, compassionate and powerful tale of friendship, secrets & premeditated murder. Belfast-born architect, Libby & her sidekick Becka are happy squatting in Lorna's London flat while she's away till they find out Lorna's actually been kidnapped by an IRA cell. Setting out to rescue her Libby's past rears its ugly head and the girls embark on a road trip around Ireland, a lot of disguises and double dealing. Will they save Lorna and what must they do to ensure their friendship survives? Praise for Sara Sheridan’s debut novel, TRUTH OR ‘a thriller for a new generation . . . Sara Sheridan will go far’ Harpers & Queen ‘a fast-moving, action tale of two girls intent on living life to the full. Libby and Becka stumble upon a set-up while squatting in a smart London flat. The owner, an up-and-coming banker, is missing. After eavesdropping on her answering machine, they realise they have taken on more than they bargained for . . . this is a story of friendship, bad money and lies. It made me laugh out loud, but it also reduced me to tears’ Sunday Express ‘darkly comic and compassionate’ Mike Ripley, Daily Telegraph ‘in a genre where we usually find polemic, melodrama or worthy-but-predictable tragedy, Sheridan has written a proper, character-driven novel instead ... a pessimistic exploration of how ordinary and even good people, once locked into a certain mind-set, can do blatantly evil things yet think them good and right... so well written you never notice the writing’ Glasgow Herald ‘poignant, exhilarating, funny’ Time Out ‘written in a snappy, quick-witted style, this urban odyssey looks set to gain many admirers’ Edinburgh Evening News

Avg Rating
3.09
Number of Ratings
44
5 STARS
7%
4 STARS
25%
3 STARS
48%
2 STARS
11%
1 STARS
9%
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Author

Sara Sheridan
Sara Sheridan
Author · 21 books
Born in Edinburgh. I'm a complete swot - love books always have! Currently obsessed with late Georgian/ early Victorian culture, the subject of several of my novels, and with 1950s Britain for my Mirabelle Bevan murder mystery series set across the UK - and even one in Paris. Occasionally write tie-in books for historical dramas on TV, children's picture books and short stories, mostly for charitable causes.
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