Lockhart's best book to date.' JUSTINE LARBALESTIER'A haunting tale about how families live within their own mythologies. They were always liars.Praise for We Were Liars:'Thrilling, beautiful and blisteringly smart - utterly unforgettable.' JOHN GREEN'We Were Liars is heartbreaking, witty, beautiful and disturbing. An irresistible, unpredictable boy.A summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes. Includes a hand-drawn map and family tree.Prequel to WE WERE LIARS, the #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and award-winning YA novel that TikTok can't stop talking about!A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts.A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow.A fiery, addicted heiress. A windswept private island off the coast o. The page-turning must-read thriller prequel to We Were Liars - #1 New York Times bestseller and TikTok sensation - takes readers back to the story of another summer, another generation, and the secrets that will haunt them for decades to come. The prequel to We Were Liars takes readers back to the story of another summer, another generation, and the secrets that will haunt them for decades to come.
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Suddenly, the lure of suspended animation, the Long Sleep, becomes irresistible and Dan wakes up 30 years later in the 21st century, a time very much to his liking. When Dan Davis is crossed in love and stabbed in the back by his business associates, the immediate future doesn't look too bright for him and Pete, his independent-minded tomcat. The discovery that the robot household appliances he invented have been mass produced is no surprise, but the realization that, far. But, though plenty has been written about the boffins, and the codebreaking, fictional and non-fiction - from Robert Harris and Ian McEwan to Andrew Hodges' biography of Turing - what of the thousands of men and women who lived and worked there during the war? What was life like for them - an odd, secret territory between the civilian and the military? Sinclair McKay's book is the first history for the general reader of life at Bletchley Park, and an amazing compendium of memories from people now in their eighties - of skating on the frozen lake in the grounds (a depressed Angus Wilson, the novelist, once threw himself in) - of a youthful Roy Jenkins, useless at codebreaking, of the high jinks at nearby accommodation hostels - and of the implacable secrecy that meant girlfriend and boyfriend working in adjacent huts knew nothing about each other's work. The military codes deciphered there were instrumental in turning both the Battle of the Atlantic and the war in North Africa. The personnel included, high society women, students out of high school and university, factory workers, typists, Wrens, scientists. This country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to Britain's most brilliant mathematical brains, like Alan Turing, and the scene of immense advances in technology - indeed, the birth of modern computing. Sinclair McKay’s The Secret Life of Bletchley Park is a superb account of what the thousands of people working at the Buckinghamshire intelligence hub actually achieved. Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. |