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This thriller about old money teens has just been adapted into the perfect summer TV series
Get ready to binge the eight-episode series
E Lockhart’s YA thriller We Were Liars (£6.99, Amazon.co.uk) was the cult novel of 2014. Now, the twisty tome has been adapted into a TV series by Amazon Prime.
The eight-episode series is the latest addition to the canon of rich-people-behaving-badly TV. The series will join the ranks among HBO’s The White Lotus and Netflix’s recent Sirens, as well as now-perennial classics like Succession and Gossip Girl.
Just like the book, it centres around 17-year-old Cadence Sinclair, who is the eldest grandchild in the wealthy Sinclair family. Spending her summers on a private island at the family holiday home, she suffers from chronic migraines and memory loss after a serious head injury a few years before.
Part love story and part amnesia thriller, the series follows Cadence’s inner circle – dubbed the liars – as they try to piece together what happened that fateful summer.
The show stars Gossip Girl’s Emily Alyn Lind as Cadence, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’s Joseph Zada and Esther McGregor as her cousins Johnny and Mirren, and Shubham Maheshwari as her friend, Gat. Fans of the cult series The Vampire Diaries will also recognise Candice King, who stars as Bess Sinclair.
Here’s everything you need to know about We Were Liars on Amazon Prime, and where to read the bestselling novel on which it is based.
How to watch We Were Liars
All eight episodes of We Were Liars are now available on Amazon Prime Video, meaning you can binge the whole series this summer.
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Where to read E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars
We Were Liars became an instant New York Times bestseller upon its release in 2014. A story of mystery and deception, Cadence Sinclair is grappling with a fractured memory two years on from a serious head injury. Back on her wealthy family’s private island for summer, Cadence and her confidants – otherwise known as “liars” – spend the season trying to recall the events. In doing so, family secrets are unearthed, the consequences of actions laid bare and relationships reach a boiling point.
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