Review: It All Started With A Lie - Denise Brown - February 2024 Pearl has always felt like the odd one out in her family, she is close to her Dad but her Mum is a different story. One night while playing hide and seek, Pearl discovers some newspaper clippings of her father finding a baby. It also happens to be around the same time she was born. Is her parents, not her real parents? Pearl along with her best friend Danny and a couple of others including Samantha decide to do some research about the unknown baby that was left behind. During the same month, they will discover that not only the murder of a teacher, a house caught fire, a teacher got fired as part of a student scandal, several students were pregnant and a male student was sentenced to prison for the murder. It was a time that the adults were trying to forget in the small town and it seems like the scandals are revolving around Pearl's family. What happened that summer and is Pearl ready to open a box of worms with her ...