A review by foraging_pages
The Great Godden by Meg Rosoff

3.0

For a day or two the world heaved with fun-house mirrors and distortions, betrayals, uncertainties, false motives, smoke screens. Villains who smiled. Weeping mad girls.

This really gave We Were Liars: British Edition complete with…
* Shakespeare motifs
* somewhat oblivious/absent parents
* summer turned upside down
* secrets and mysterious people
* character studies
* manipulation