The Girl Who Couldn't Lie

A fresh, funny story about white lies, brutal honesty and magic bangles, from award-winning journalist and author Radhika Sanghani. Priya Shah lies. A lot. She's learned that the only way to get through life without disappointing everybody is by pretending that everything is perfect. She tells her best friends Sami and Mei that everything's great at home when her parents won't stop arguing. She tells her parents that everything's fine at school even though she's being bullied. She tells her gymnastics coach she'll do anything to get onto the national team, when the truth is that she's sick of training. But when Priya puts on a bangle left to her by her Ba - the one person she never had to lie to - she finds herself incapable of telling a lie. Priya is mortified. She tells her dad how much she hates his cooking, she tells her sister about her huge crush on Dan Zhang, she shares Sami and Mei's secrets at school. She has no idea what's happening - until she realises the bangle forcing her to tell the truth. As more things go wrong, and Priya's truth-telling spirals out of control, can Priya learn to be honest without hurting the people she loves?