The novel We Were Liars by E. Lockhart is about a family on a fictional island called Beechwood, off the coast of Massachusetts. The story is about Cadence Sinclair and is told by her. She is an unreliable narrator because she was in an accident and has memory loss. Cadence is part of a rich, powerful family on the East Coast. Cadence’s grandfather is the owner of the private island which has four large houses on it, one for the grandfather and one for each of his daughters. The daughters don’t work and rely on their trust funds and the grandfather, Harris to sustain them. Harris has pitted the daughters against each other for the inheritance and the daughters try to utilise their children to solicit or advocate Harris to give them more