The Lying Game

Georgia Johnson

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Blog Post: The Lying Game

I just started The Lying Game and it is a very good book so far. This book written by Sarah Shepard leaves you hanging at the end of every chapter. There is a girl named Emma Paxton who was abandoned by her parents at age five. She was then living in foster care and had a tough life from the beginning. She had always been wanting and looking for a family of her own. Emma then finds a family that she can go and live with, a woman named Clarice who is a single mother of a boy around Emma’s age named Travis. Travis then shows Emma a picture of a girl who appears to be her and looks identical to her. As she is wondering how a picture of her got up on the internet she remembers that she had been abandoned as a child and maybe that she had a long lost sister. She then calls social services and asks if Becky had abandoned in any other children and social services isn’t sure how to respond because they don’t have any record of her doing so. Emma later goes on a train to see her long lost sister, Sutton after they communicated a couple of times. Emma was waiting for Sutton to come and pick her up but in the end she never showed up to pick up Emma.