How can you be true to your children when you can´t be true to yourselfLucy Murphy has one goal in life - to make sure that her twins get a better start than she did.Having been abandoned by their father early in her pregnancy, and forced to walk away from a glittering future as a lawyer, she has vowed that nothing will block her children´s dreams. She never talks about the past - only what lies ahead.So when the twins get an opportunity to move to a prestigious school all Lucy sees is the fulfilment of every wish she´s ever had for them. But maybe Lucy is confusing her thwarted ambitions with what her daughter and son really want. After all, like all 17-year-olds they have their own ideas about their lives, ideas they can´t share with their mother.Loving them as fiercely as she does, Lucy is blind to the risks of forcing her vision on her children. Until it´s almost too late. To have any hope of surviving as a family all three of them are going to have to face up to some surprising and difficult truths.Our Secrets and Lies is a moving, gripping and thought-provoking story about a mother learning the hardest lesson of all - how to let go of your children and how to live without them.Praise for Sinead Moriarty´A heart-warming and a heart-breaking story, beautifully written and sensitive´ Woman´s Way´A fascinating exploration of difficult subjects ... Moriarty writes with compelling authority´ Irish Times´There is warmth and heart aplenty in this delicately told story´ Daily Mail´OMG! I´m an emotional wreck after reading this novel, probably not helped by the fact that I pulled an all-nighter to finish it ... I just could not put it down´ Eileen Dunne, RTE´Heartfelt and deeply moving ... I couldn´t put it down.´ Susan Lewis´We ate this fabulous story up - 4 stars´ Heat magazine´Intriguing and thought provoking ... a great read.´ Katie Fforde´Gripping and thought-provoking - I was desperate to discover how it would pan out!´ Paige Toon