E Lockhart's fans always want to know why the dogs had to die

E Lockhart expects the audiences at her Irish readings to ask about the fate of the canines in her young adult classic, We Were Liars, writes Áilín Quinlan

USUALLY, observes E. Lockhart, the author of cult classic We Were Liars, one of the first questions she gets from teenage fans is why the dogs died.

You’ll have to read her chilling, though best-selling book to find out why and how the doggies met their untimely end, bu, there’s no doubt it was a cruel, unusual, and, at least in the eyes of a large proportion of the best-selling author’s passionate young adult readership, heart-breaking and quite unnecessary.