This reading group guide for Tell Me Lies includes discussion questions and ideas for enhancing your book club. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book. As it turned out, not only had he lied about breaking up with his first "ex"-girlfriend, he had yet another girlfriend on the side - a girl who was in our circle of friends, and who had, towards the end of my relationship with this guy, suddenly started acting very weirdly towards me. I couldn't figure out what it was I had done. I received a free advance copy of this book from the publishers and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

A very strong debut; Lovering has not just done great things with her character development, she also has nailed a strong sense of pacing. Lucy has a secret that she only tells Stephen, and Stephen is harboring a secret that could destroy him—one that Lucy will unravel. I already am looking forward to seeing what Lovering writes next. BookReporter I didn’t realize you were trying to be some kind of global health journalist.” Her face is practically twitching with rage or discomfort; I can’t tell which. Tensions between Wrigley and Drew explode, leaving one seriously injured. Due to her teacher's threat to fail her for plagiarism, Lucy is compelled to face her past.Carola Lovering is the author of Tell Me Lies, Too Good to Be True, Can’t Look Away, and the forthcoming Bye, Baby. She is a graduate of Colorado College, and her work has appeared in Vogue, The Cut, Marie Claire, W Magazine, National Geographic, and Yoga Journal, among other publications. Her novel, Tell Me Lies, has been adapted into a television series for Hulu. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two young children. A coming-of-age story that explores the consequences and tribulations of still being haunted by the wrong one who you just can’t let go of, the book is narrated by both Lucy and her love interest, Stephen. Watch as their relationship grows and changes throughout college and after-grad life in NYC, within the push and pull of not-right young romance, and not quite being able to let go. Brides Stephen has not met anyone like Lucy. While he is used to seducing girls and getting what he wants, he is surprised when Lucy doesn’t just throw herself at him. Lucy doesn’t immediately agree to date him. However, instead of leaving her alone, Stephen takes this as a challenge and begins to pursue Lucy relentlessly. It is not long before these two young adults become an item. Unfortunately, there are many secrets that Stephen is keeping from Lucy. There is that incident in the past that he wants to forget and continue keeping it secret. When the truth comes out, Lucy is devastated. However, she is already deeply entangled with Stephen, and this toxic relationship lasts through her college life and even after school.

Tell Me Lies” is a novel that exemplifies a male dating predator and how he “grooms” his subject. It’s a story that proves how an at-one-time confident young woman can be manipulated into an insecure, needy woman. It’s a story of stormy and passionate relationships. I’d watched her sacrifice so much of herself on my behalf, even though I’d never given her what I knew she wanted. Oh, I almost forgot,” CJ said. She pulled a liter of Diet Coke and a handle of Absolut vodka out of her oversize purse and placed them on one of the desks. She looked at me with annoyingly pleased eyes—it was her parting gift, her attempt to keep the peace between us and say to the world: I’m a cool mom. Lucy’s mother doesn’t understand why Lucy won't attend University closer to home. But Lucy chose Baird because she wanted to be as far away from her mother as possible. A few years ago her mother did what Lucy calls “ The Unforgivable Thing”.

Tell Me Lies is about that one person who still haunts you—the other one. The wrong one. The one you couldn’t let go of. The one you’ll never forget” What did you do in high school, if you didn’t drink and you didn’t have sex? You went to boarding school. Isn’t that what people do there?” I watch the city slink away from the window of the train. I close my eyes, still exhausted, but I know I won’t be able to sleep. I can never sleep on any form of transportation. I’m too frantic to read, so I listen to Fleetwood Mac in a nervous frenzy and pray that the bruise-colored bags under my eyes will magically disappear before we reach Tewksbury. Both Lucy and Stephen have traumatic events from their past that continue to haunt them. What effect do you think their respective experiences have on their behavior?