The Little Liar

The truth is never what we imagine and it is sometimes beneficial to question our intimate conviction. Pascale Robert-Diard tells the story of a young girl who lies. When institutions are criticized for their indifference, the author shows adults filled with good intentions. At a time when literature abounds in devious or flamboyant penalists, La Petite Menteuse tells the way in which a lawyer practices her profession with finesse. The gears of imposture Lisa is fifteen years old. She is a loose teenager, with a disconcerting spontaneity. She had breasts before the other girls, the ones that turn boys on. She has a "dirty reputation". One day, Lisa changes, becomes gloomy, is often on the verge of tears. His teachers worry about it. Lisa no longer has a way out of her troubled and violent adolescence. Cornered, she ends up confessing: a man abused her. Suspicion falls on Marco, a worker who has come to do some work at his parents' house. At first instance, he was sentenced to ten years in prison. The whirlwind of lies and truth Alice, a provincial lawyer, is visited by this young woman. Now an adult, Lisa chose her for the appeal trial because she “prefers to be defended by a woman”. Alice takes over the case methodically, she looks for referral errors, false leads, those that make you dizzy, then discovers the truth. With Lisa's story, she begins the most perilous trial of her career: defending a victim who lied.