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About this book: ¬We Were Liars by E. Lockhart is about four friends – the Liars – that becomes destructive. During summer fifteen on her family’s island, Cadence Sinclair suffers an injury that causes her to lose her memory. Her family won’t tell her what happened in summer fifteen and for two years, Cadence doesn’t see the Liars. Summer seventeen comes along and Cadence decides she needs to figure out the truth and she dedicates her summer to doing just so. As some of Cadence’s memory returns, she remembers the tension between her mother, aunts and grandfather over her dead grandmother’s possessions. All the Liars were sick of the adult’s behavior and vow they will do anything to put an end to it. One day when everyone but the Liars leaves

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