The Liar's Daughter

From a "delightfully smart" historical novelist, a woman raised to believe she is the daughter of a British war hero searches for her true parentage (The Sunday Times).

Nan Prunty's mother is the rare woman to have served aboard navy vessels, an eyewitness to British sea battles aboard the HMS Victory. Now a notorious drunk, Nan's mother shares outlandish anecdotes of bygone adventures, most of which Nan believes to be tall tales. The only story her mother tells the same way twice is that o...