Family of Liars
- Published
- 1 January 2022
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780593485866
- Type
- novel
About this book
Family of Liars arrived in 2022, eight years after the original, as a prequel following Cadence's mother Penny Sinclair and her sisters during their own fateful island summer a generation earlier.
Key facts about Family of Liars
E. Lockhart wrote Family of Liars, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2022. The book has 320 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780593485866 to find the main one.
Family of Liars is book 2 of 3 in the We Were Liars series. The series has 3 published books. However, the series starts with We Were Liars (2014).
Additionally, E. Lockhart writes Ruby Oliver Quartet as a separate series. Those series sit on our young adult shelf. Meanwhile, The Pools is the latest published E. Lockhart book on file, from 6 October 2026.
About E. Lockhart
E. Lockhart is the pen name of Emily Jenkins (born 1967), an American author best known for young adult fiction, including the bestselling We Were Liars series. Lockhart's breakout early work, the Ruby Oliver Quartet (2005-2010) and The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (2008), established her voice for wry, socially sharp contemporary YA before We Were Liars (2014) shifted her into psychological suspense and became a word-of-mouth bestseller. See every E. Lockhart book in order.
Its place in We Were Liars
Family of Liars is book 2 in the We Were Liars series. It follows We Were Liars. It is followed by We Fell Apart. See the full We Were Liars reading order.
We Were Liars (2014) is E. Lockhart's best-known novel: a psychologically twisty story about Cadence Sinclair Eastman, a teenager from a wealthy, image-obsessed old-money family who spends every summer with her cousins and a family friend, Gat, on the Sinclairs' private island off Massachusetts. After a mysterious accident during her fifteenth summer leaves Cadence with amnesia and chronic migraines, she returns to the island two years later determined to piece together what really happened -- and the novel…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780593485866