Love and Lies - And Why You Can’t Have One Without the Other

For better or for worse, for richer or for poorer: love and lies have always been the most intimate of bedfellows. And Clancy Martin - divorced twice, married three times - is no stranger to either. With help from Plato, Machiavelli, Raymond Carver and Pinocchio, here he explores the entanglements of love, truthfulness and deceit. First, unrequited, lasting or misguided - love always goes hand in hand with secrets, and it's time we started being honest about our lying.