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Eight-year-old Ivy is the deception artist: shehas a vivid imagination and tells lies so thatpeople will like her. With her brother, Brice,in hospital, life at home feels unsettled andthings become even more strained after herfather loses his job, along with his sense ofpurpose.Ivy s worries deepen as her dad fails to cope withhis wife s career success and forms a dubiousfriendship with recently-divorced Olivia. Herparents might divorce and her best friend hates herbut, ever creative, Ivy tries to stay afloat throughfantasies, superstitions and pretense.Set in Northern California in the late 1980srecession, and seen through the eyes of aremarkable little girl, this literary debut is acompelling story, told with humour andcompassion, about a family under pressure,grappling with difficult times.

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Fayette Fox holds an MA in Publishing from the London College of Communication and a BA in Creative Writing from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. A freelance travel writer and commissioning editor, Fayette writes for Lonely Planet and has been commissioned by travel websites Openplac.es and TripAdvisor.com. This is her first novel.

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