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The Liars' Club
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The Liars’ Club

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'You'll want to forget it and won't be able to' - Zadie Smith

'The essential American story' - The Washington Post

My father comes into focus for me on a Liars' Club afternoon. He sits at a wobbly card table weighed down by a bottle. Even now the scene seems so real to me that I can't but write it in the present tense.

Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family. In this funny, devastating, haunting memoir and with a raw and often painful honesty, she looks back at life with a painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip over into psychosis, and a hard-drinking, fist-swinging father who liked nothing better than to spin tales with his cronies at the Liars' Club.

When it was published in 1995, The Liars' Club raised the art of memoir to a new level and brought about a dramatic revival of the form. It is a classic that paints a harsh world redeemed by Karr's warmth, intelligent humour and finely spun prose. The Liars' Club is both heart-stopping and heart-felt.

'Extraordinary' - The Guardian 'Exceptionally powerful' - The Observer 'Utterly gripping' - The Sunday Times

Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Country
United Kingdom
Date
14 October 2025
Pages
352
ISBN
9781035060252

'You'll want to forget it and won't be able to' - Zadie Smith

'The essential American story' - The Washington Post

My father comes into focus for me on a Liars' Club afternoon. He sits at a wobbly card table weighed down by a bottle. Even now the scene seems so real to me that I can't but write it in the present tense.

Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family. In this funny, devastating, haunting memoir and with a raw and often painful honesty, she looks back at life with a painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip over into psychosis, and a hard-drinking, fist-swinging father who liked nothing better than to spin tales with his cronies at the Liars' Club.

When it was published in 1995, The Liars' Club raised the art of memoir to a new level and brought about a dramatic revival of the form. It is a classic that paints a harsh world redeemed by Karr's warmth, intelligent humour and finely spun prose. The Liars' Club is both heart-stopping and heart-felt.

'Extraordinary' - The Guardian 'Exceptionally powerful' - The Observer 'Utterly gripping' - The Sunday Times

Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature.

Read More
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Country
United Kingdom
Date
14 October 2025
Pages
352
ISBN
9781035060252