This was a fantastic book. I just had to finish it!

It is based in one room for the entirety of the book, with flashbacks, it was so interesting and original. I would highly recommend it.

Thank you for letting me review this book Netgalley

Totally engrossing. Really didn’t know where this story was going but gripped by what unravels. Nail-biting page-turner.

I really enjoyed reading this. there are only 2 main characters and the story takes place in one room, apart from the flash backs, but it was a real page turner. The story is based on a frequently used idea, revenge for an action in the past, but it reads as a new and different concept. I was hooked and really wanted to get to the end to find out what happened.
I can thoroughly recommend this book.

Set aside a couple of hours before you sit down to read "The liar's room" - you're going to need it.

Twists and turns come thick and fast in this tale of a counsellor and her first meeting with a new client. Both have secrets, but whose will prove deadly?

Fast paced and compelling, I read this in one sitting. It's a rare book that keeps me guessing these days, but I wasn't even thinking of what might happen next. I was too riveted by what's happening now.

One of the best books I've read in a long time.

Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC.

I tried to get in to it but failed, it’s very different to the normal thrillers I read, so would be good for some else , the writing was fine , I just couldn’t get into the story’s, I would still recommend this book to anyone my style off story is different to someone else..

This book follows Susanna and Emily, a mother and daughter who are seemingly normal. Except Susanna has a whole other history within her life which Emily and her colleagues are totally unaware of.

Adam makes an appointment to see Susanna, who is a counsellor. Yet, again, not all is as it seems. Much of the story plays out within the small counselling office. Adam and Susanna are linked in a way she never imagined and as the drama unfolds the web of lies, for both of them, unfolds.

This story is very dark and does not have much joy within it, yet the author maintains the suspense and a good pace throughout. Worth a read if you are fan of psychological / crime thrillers.

This is a plot in an original setting,exceedingly cleverly developed. The author shows a remarkable understanding of the emotions of them win characters despite their different age groups and positions in the story. The climax unfolds gradually and very effectively. It would be difficult not to be affected by the experience of the young male character or the older counsellor. This is a very good and challenging read.

Exciting read, a high speed emotional roller coaster. A woman with a secret who is visited at her place of work by a new client who is not whom he first appears to be. This is a story of revenge rolling back the years to when Susanna was a different person with a different life.

A fantastic thriller. The dark and twisted plot hooks you from the start teasing key plot points throughout leaving you craving more answers at the end of each chapter.

5 stars.

Thanks to NetGalley, Simon Lelic and Penguin Books for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The Liars Room started of really well, but after that I really struggled to it.

Wow. Didn’t want to put this down. Kept me gripped from start to finish

Thanks to the publishers and NetGalley for ARC and opportunity to provide an impartial review in advance of publication. This is the second book I have read by this author and whilst it didn't reach the heights of the previous one (The House) it did nonetheless prove to be an enjoyable read. Number of twists along the way including one major one added to enjoyment and no hesitation in awarding four stars and recommending to other readers of this type of genre.

I really loved Simon Lelic’s first novel ‘Rupture’ and since then I’ve always looked out for his writing. So does ‘The Liar’s Room’ measure up to the quality of his first novel? Well, in part. He is very convincing in his delineation of Emily, the teenage daughter of one of the liars at the centre of the story. She is not a particularly troubled or difficult girl: she is just mildly irritated by her counsellor mother’s protective stance; she has enough friends at school; she enjoys being noticed by Adam, attractive young man. It’s quite refreshing to read about a teenager who is recognisably normal! Lelic is also very good at portraying single parent Susanna’s increasing distress and fear when she realises that said Adam, in her consulting room, is not a bone fide patient. He has kidnapped her daughter and means both her and her mother harm. Why?
The plot cannot really be summarised effectively with spoiling a number of revelations along the way. Suffice to say that Susanna is not entirely whom she appears to be. Having withheld a good deal of information from Emily about their family, she is certainly one of the liars in the room and the troubled Adam is intent on exposing her duplicity. Adam, too, is a liar. He invents several childhoods, all slightly different in their traumatic details. Nevertheless, what remains at the centre of his mental instability is the feeling that he has always felt unwanted and unloved – the polar opposite of Emily’s upbringing. Throughout the novel, Lelic explores the damage that occurs when a child feels abandoned. The focus is, however, not entirely on the young. The reader also begins to understand why Susanna is so protective of Emily, why she carries a huge burden of guilt and why she is keen to rescue others from emotional damage. But, given her baggage, is she really capable of taking on this role?
This novel might have been more compelling had the author ventured out of the consulting room more often. Of course, we learn about events past through the retelling of life stories but everything comes back to the lengthy conversation between Susanna and Adam and this isn’t enough to sustain interest throughout. I’m not sure that I entirely believed in Adam’s motives either. For someone so desperate to ‘belong’, would he really be quite so ruthless in his treatment of Emily and Susanna?
My thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Random House for a copy of this novel in exchange for a fair review.

Susanna is a successful counsellor with a secret which she has kept for 14 years. Now she is going to need all her skills for the last session of the week when Adam walks through the door to her office. And so begins a tale which goes back in time to places that Susanna wished would never been remembered again with many twists and turns along the way. What I liked about this book is that the story is credible but as a reader I was never sure what was coming next. Unlike some books in this genre, I never lost touch with the storyline and the pace was just right. Although I had not come across previous books from Simon Lelic, I am now committed to going back and finding some of his earlier work to put right that oversight.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

What a superb, chiller-thriller. The story centres around Susannah a counsellor meeting a new client Adam. Adam confesses he is having dark thoughts about hurting a girl he likes and when he shows a photograph of the girl to Susannah she realises it's her daughter Emily......from there you are taken on a roller coaster of plot twists, gut wrenching emotions and an inability to put down the book until you find out just why Adam knows Emily and why he's so angry.

A superb stonker of a plot, testament to me reading this in one sitting. I loved the premise of the whole story being played out in Susannah's counselling room. I felt that really added to the atmosphere and dynamic tension between these two characters. The fact that the author can leave you sat on the edge of your seat and doesn't change locations shows the strength of this writing.

I don't want to give the plot twists away, but throughout the book you constantly find yourself guessing about the relationship between the two characters and then when you do find out (even if you do start to guess) it's executed in the writing really well.

Will be recommending this novel to both my book clubs as a must read when published

This is different from the usual thrillers I read,however still a book I really enjoyed. It switched quite a lot which made some parts difficult to follow at first but became clearer as you read on. Would be interested in reading other books by this author

This book was of no interest to me. It jumped around a lot and did not understand what it was all about.
Sorry did not enjoy this one.

Quite an unusual thriller, set in one afternoon with conversation as throw backs to the events leading up to this moment. You have no idea what is going on for a good half of the book but gradually you get the picture. I would have likes to have heard more from Emily as the time goes by. Not only would this have given us added suspense, but would have broken up the somewhat monotonous session going on in the counselling room.

Wow. I read The House also by this author and was super excited to read this one and i wasn't disappointed. A truly fantastic read that had me gripped from start to end. It's deep, it's dark, it's an emotional roller-coaster ride. Get comfy, no-one is leaving the room until the truth finally comes out!

I really loved this book! Excellent story with brilliant main characters. I would recommend this book.