Liar’s Dice: A Novel
Published on: April 7, 2026
In the debut novel Liar’s Dice by Juliet Faithfull, identical twins Dolores and Mita are inseparable while growing up in rural 1970s Brazil. Their bond is shattered when Mita develops a mysterious illness and is suddenly sent away to a hospital in London.
Left behind, Dolores moves with her parents to Rio de Janeiro, where her family maintains a chilling silence, acting as if Mita never existed. Struggling with grief and isolation at a strict British school, Dolores eventually finds an unlikely ally in Andrea, a streetwise girl who teaches her how to navigate the city's dangerous underbelly.
As Brazil’s military dictatorship intensifies and people begin to disappear, Dolores grows suspicious of her parents' stories. Fearing Mita might be dead or hidden away, she descends into a world of lies, gambling, and theft to uncover the truth. Set against a backdrop of political repression, this is a powerful story about the lengths a sister will go to reclaim her missing half and break the suffocating cycle of family secrets.
About the Author
Juliet Faithfull
Juliet Faithfull is a Spanish-British-American writer who grew up in Brazil. LIAR’S DICE, her first novel, was a winner of the Irish Writers Centre’s Novel Fair and a semifinalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship. She was awarded a Pauline Scheer Fellowship by GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program and her short stories have been published in the Bellevue Revue and Urbanus Magazine. A graduate of Harvard University and Smith College School of Social Work, Juliet works as a trilingual psychotherapist and currently lives in Cambridge. Massachusetts, with her two sons.
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| Book Title | Liar’s Dice: A Novel |
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| Author | Juliet Faithfull |
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| Book Language | English |
| Book Format | EPUB, PDF |
| Date Published | April 7, 2026 |
| Publisher | Unknown |
| Awards | None |
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