Little Liar

“Gray has a sure-footed understanding of the adolescent mind (so much so that I often winced in pleasurable recognition) and creates a gripping, smoothly executed psychodrama… I genuinely could not stop reading this: a treat for teens and above.” – Philip Womack * Literary Review *“Julia Gray’s impressive, Patricia Highsmith inspired Little Liar… puts readers into the hands of the ultimate unreliable narrator for a story that never lets you stay too long on stable ground - it’s nail-biting stuff.” * Waterstones Children’s Summer Reading Round-Up *“This gripping psychological thriller, crackling with the intensities of female friendship, confirms [Julia Gray] as a highly original new talent in YA fiction” – Fiona Noble * The Bookseller *“Julia Gray’s second novel is a superb psychological thriller with a distinctive voice, a clever blend of contemporary realism and classic noir.” – Claire Hennessy * Inis Reading Guide *“Julia Gray has created an immensely powerful psychological thriller which challenges our whole understanding of behaviour and warns against passing judgement” * Carousel *“Intelligent, gripping, highly original.” – Andrea Reece * Lovereading *“Intense, psychological, gripping; The Talented Mr Ripley for YA” – Anna McKerrow“Smart, gripping and sharply-observed YA, with a pitch-perfect narrative voice.” * Katherine Woodfine *“Another wildly inventive, thrillingly unreliable narrator from the immeasurably talented Julia Gray. Full of twists and turns this story leaves you wondering who is telling the tallest story. A great novel about truth and lies and what we need to believe to stay alive.” – Julia Bell”…a gripping, memorable page turner that I am glad to have read.” * Teach Secondary *

Julia Gray is a writer and singer-songwriter. She studied Classics at UCL and has a diploma in Children’s Literature and an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, for which she received the Sophie Warne Fellowship. She has released three albums with the trip-hop/jazz collective Second Person, and more recently two solo albums, I Am Not The Night and Robber Bride.