The Supreme Lie

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A darkly funny commentary on present times, from a double Carnegie medal winner. Twice Carnegie medal winning Geraldine McCaughrean's enthralling new novel is set in a world paralysed by natural disaster and dangerous lies.Fifteen-year-old Gloria is maid to Afalia's tyrannical Head of State, Madame Suprema. When the country is hit by unprecedented flooding, Madame Suprema runs away, fearing she will be blamed for the crisis. To cover up this cowardly act, Gloria is made to step into Madame Suprema's shoes and is thrust into a world of corrupt and desperate politicians. As Gloria becomes aware of the forces toying with her every move, she must take decisions that could save, or end, thousands of lives - including her own...A brilliant and darkly funny commentary on our present times by one of our greatest writers.

Geraldine McCaughrean is one of today's most successful and highly regarded children's authors. She has won the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Book Award three times, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Smarties Bronze Award four times, the prestigious U.S. Printz Award and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. She was chosen to write the official sequel to J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Peter Pan in Scarlet, which was published to wide critical acclaim. Geraldine lives in Berkshire with her husband John and the lingering shades of all those characters she has invented in her books. Author location: Berkshire

As always, McCaughrean's prose and characterisation of the good, the bad and the in-between, are a treat. * The Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week * This enjoyable eco thriller is richly told * The Times, Children's Book of the Week * [A] thought-provoking, poignant, blackly funny novel * The Guardian * This often-surprising novel is a book that will stand the test of time. * The Irish Times * Geraldine McCaughrean is a writer of ferocious literary talent... A zinging black comedy, [The Supreme Lie] asks sophisticated questions about power and responsibility. * New Statesman *