Olivia Simons in conversation with Anna Downes: Lying is My Love Language

Lying is My Love Language: Meet Author Olivia Simons

Saturday 25 July

5.30-7.30pm

Bookoccino Bookstore

Telling the truth was never part of the plan. Neither was falling in love.

Author Olivia Simons shares her debut romantic-comedic novel filled with the wittiest banter you’ll read all year. 

Jamie Hayes lies to keep things light and casual. It’s a foolproof formula full of strong cocktails and even stronger exit strategies.

That’s until she meets Luke at an outback wedding and discovers there’s one flaw in her strategy: he doesn't believe a word she says.

Devastatingly handsome and infuriatingly stubborn, Luke is completely immune to her city charm. So immune they end up in bed together. Twice. Their connection is electric, but it’s only a game. At least, that's what she tells herself . . . until they crash back into each other’s lives and she's forced to confront the one thing she's always avoided: the truth.

Now Jamie must decide whether she’ll keep running from anything real, or risk it all for something bigger than the life she curated. Because the man who sees through her lies might teach her how to love without them.

About the Author

Olivia Simons is a writer from the Northern Rivers of New South Wales. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Macquarie University, where she interned with the Australian Society of Authors. She came of age on Avril Lavigne and Tumblr, wears ankle socks, refuses low-rise jeans, knows how to rotate a PDF, and has been repeatedly informed that eating too much avo toast is why she'll never get ahead in life.Lying Is My Love Languageis her first novel. Find her at www.oliviasimons.com or on Instagram @oliviarasimons.