The Lies That Bind: A Novel Free Audiobook Download by Emily Giffin
The Lies That Bind is a beautifully written novel that explores the complexities of relationships, motherhood, marriage, and life. The story begins with protagonist Liana Ferguson making a decision to leave her husband who she feels no longer loves her in order to find herself. After moving back into her childhood home, Liana finds herself returning to the one thing she has pushed away from-family. As Liana becomes closer with her sister and parents, she learns that they are coming out with their own secrets as well.
The Lies That Bind is a story about four different people who are all bound together by family and the lies that bind them. The book follows Miles and Elizabeth, who have been married for 7 years but whose marriage has become strained because of his affair. Their son, Buck, struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction in his own marriage while they struggle to keep the secret. It also follows Annie, whose idealism was taken to the extreme after 9/11 and she becomes a terrorist before her time. Lastly it follows Will, whose life consists of him being a fixer for professional athletes who use him to cover up their affairs.
It is the summer of 1987 and teenage girls from around the world have gathered in a remote cottage to work on a yearbook. Eighteen-year-old Caroline Fisher is a shy, lonely girl with few friends, who for the first time has been invited to Turtle Island Cottage, where she will spend her summer vacation with five other girls from different cultures and backgrounds.
In her latest novel, Emily Giffin takes readers on an emotional journey through the life of two extremes. From celebrity to tragic victim and from mother to failed mother, this novel follows the characters' paths in a way that is both gripping and heart-wrenching.
A novel of emotional intimacy and psychological insight, The Lies That Bind tells the story of a young woman who is completely immersed in her job at a publishing company. She has sacrificed anything resembling a personal life for her career and watches from the sidelines as others struggle through relationships, good intentions, and their own bad choices. When she meets an enigmatic man during a business trip to Paris, she immediately feels an attraction. They spend the next two years circling each other cautiously out of mutual respect for each other's professional boundaries. Her ex-husband is still in her life and on the brink of remarriage with someone else; he is still just as much in love with his wife; she still doesn't feel worthy of true happiness.
The Lies That Bind is a novel written by Emily Giffin. It is told in three different characters' points of view and tells the story of the complicated relationships between two generations of women and the subsequent aftermath. In this audiobook download, Brittany Pressley, Vikas Adam, and Will Damron can each be heard narrating their own sections of this novel.
Published Date | 2020-06-02 |
Duration | 10 hours 45 minutes |
Author | Emily Giffin |
Narrated | Brittany Pressley, Vikas Adam, Will Damron |
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Abridged | No |
Is It Free? | 30-days Free |
Category | Fiction & Literature |
Parent Category | Contemporary Women, Literary Fiction, Contemporary |