'Pretending is Lying' is a memoir unlike any other. The first book to appear in English by the acclaimed Belgian artist Dominique Goblet, it is at once an intimate account of love and familial dysfunction, and an audacious experiment in graphic storytelling. In a series of dazzling fragments - skipping through time, and from raw, slashing colour to delicate black and white - Goblet examines the most important relationships in her life: with her partner, Guy-Marc, and their daughter; with her alcoholic, well-meaning father; with her abusive mother.