In a family driven by jealousy and propriety as much as by love, an unspoken tradition of deceit is passed from generation to generation, and fiercely protected secrets gradually drive the Santerres apart. Set in California, Liars and Saints follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present, as they navigate a succession of life altering events through the submerged emotion of the fifties, the recklessness and excess of the sixties and seventies, and the reckonings of the eighties and nineties. This richly textured, emotionally charged novel tells a story of sex and longing, love and loss, and of the deceits that can lie at the heart of family relationships. Maile Meloy is a truly compelling discovery.’ With her first novel, Liars and Saints, Meloy more than delivers on the promise of her earlier work. ‘What distinguishes Meloy is her insistence on old fashioned plot and sensibility… ‘Wonderfully wise beyond the author’s years,’ said the Chicago Tribune.
‘Here is an author who knows how to jump start the reader’s interest,’ raved The New York Times. With her 2002 debut story collection, Half in Love, prizewinning author Maile Meloy drew acclaim from readers and reviewers across the country.
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