![]() Each was given their own house on the island: Windemere for Penny, Red Gate for Carrie, and Cuddledown for Bess. His daughters Penny, Carrie, and Bess were tall, merry, rich princesses. He kept his wife, Tipper, in the kitchen and garden, or showed her off in pearls and on sailboats. ![]() Cadence comments on how her grandfather Harris came into his money after going to Harvard. ![]() They then pack bags to spend the summer at Beechwood Island. They throw away any trace of his existence in the house and hire decorators. Mummy snaps at her to get a hold of herself. To watch him drive off makes Cadence feel like he has shot her in the chest. He says he can’t try to be a Sinclair any longer. The summer Cadence is fifteen, before the accident, her father leaves Cadence’s mother for another woman. She has suffered from migraines since an accident several years ago. Cadence is nearly eighteen and lives in a grand house with her mother in Vermont. Cadence says it doesn’t matter if money is running out, divorce is destroying lives, or pill bottles are clustering on the bedside table-because they are Sinclairs, and no one is needy or wrong. No one is a criminal, addict, or failure. They spend summers on a private island off the coast of Massachusetts. The Sinclair family members are beautiful, rich, athletic, and tall. ![]() Narrated in the first-person perspective by the novel’s protagonist, Cadence Sinclair Eastman, We Were Liarsopens with Cadence introducing her family to the reader. ![]()
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