Why Men Lie is about Effie, the fascinating sister of the troubled priest at the heart of The Bishop's Man.
Effie has had her fair share of lovers and husbands, including the
Gillis cousins from Cape Breton, who have been a source of as much guilt
as joy. She first married John, then ran away to Toronto with the
charismatic Sextus, who is still in her life despite her having divorced
him years ago. But she's more or less given up on being swept away by
love, until, in a chance encounter, she meets a person who might very
well be the perfect man. And love once again rears its thorny head, with
all its troublesome illusions, at an age when maintaining illusions is
hard.
Even Effie, as wise as any woman can be to the ways of
men, is unprepared for the maelstrom her new love affair will unleash.
Or for the particularly male desperation and vanity that is its cause.
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