Loved 'We Were Liars'? There's A Prequel, 'Family Of Liars' — And It Could Be The Plot Of Season Two

Elle

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This article contains spoilers for the ending of 'We Were Liars'
For many viewers, the grown Sinclair sisters were one of the highlights of We Were Liars. And now, if that final scene of the series is anything to go by, we could be getting a lot more of them if a season two happens.
Following the success of the 2014 book, We Were Liars, author E. Lockhart decided to expand the 'Sinclair universe' and wrote a prequel, Family Of Liars. The book tells the story of the Sinclair sisters when they were younger, notably the summer that older sister Carrie (Mamie Gummer) turned 17. The story is framed around Carrie talking to the ghost of her dead son, Johnny (Joseph Zada) — one of The Liars from We Were Liars — and telling him everything that happened.
While a second season of We Were Liars has yet to be confirmed, the final scene of its first outing, shows Carrie turning back to addiction and talking to Johnny, which seems to confirm that any follow-up would be faithful to the plot of the prequel book.
Further, one of the showrunners for the screen adaptation, Carina Adly MacKenzie, hinted to Variety that any future series would involve the prequel book: 'The great thing about this show is that the first season has a satisfying, powerful ending. So I want people who generally don't tune in to the first season because they're afraid it's going to get canceled, to know that they're safe to watch this show, and if it doesn't get a second season, you've still got a whole story. But also, Emily wrote three books and we love this world. We love our cast. We'd love the opportunity that exists for more story, so we're hopeful that we'll get to come back and do more. But also, should this be a limited series, I think it's a beautiful story.'
The third book MacKenzie noted is We Fell Apart, an upcoming novel which will be released in November.
The story finds eldest sister Carrie telling her son, Johnny, stories of when she was young - before explaining to him the summer she turned 17, and the Sinclair sisters themselves became liars.
Telling the story of how Carrie became addicted to medication after a routine jaw operation, the tale picks up just after the death of the youngest Sinclair sister, Rosemary, with the whole family reeling privately, but, in true We Were Liars fashion, trying to put on a front as 'American royalty'.
The story continues to flesh out the secrets of the Sinclair family that are hinted at in We Were Liars' first season and shows the reasons the sisters are the way they are — it's a must-read for fans of the first book (and show).
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