What I Saw and How I Lied Characters

Evie Spooner is our plucky, adolescent narrator as we navigate the choppy waters in What I Saw and How I Lied, and as such, we get to know her very well. When the novel opens up, Evie is a pretty n...

The mysterious and attractive Peter Coleridge shows up in Palm Beach… and nothing is ever the same again. Casanova Peter Coleridge is definitely a ladies' man, as is made clear when he shows up i...

Femme FataleEveryone says the same thing about Bev: she's a total babe. After all, she's got that long blonde hair and those killer curves, and everywhere she goes, people notice her. Evie's always...

Joe Spooner is Evie's idea of a perfect dad—he's all-American, provides for the family, and accepts Evie as though she's his very own daughter. She tells us:If I could choose a father, I would ha...

When the Spooners first see Arlene Grayson, they're all taken by just how elegant and fancy she looks, even though she isn't exactly a naturally beautiful woman. Check out Evie's description: She w...

Mr. Grayson is a slick, successful businessman who Joe immediately befriends when they arrive at the hotel in Palm Beach. Joe goes directly to Tom because he wants to strike up a business partnersh...

Who's Wally? He's a pimply teenage bellhop at the hotel, who pretty much follows Evie everywhere, trying to ask her out. Doesn't that sound attractive? Evie certainly doesn't think so; she's too bu...

For someone whose name includes the word glad, Grandma Glad is not someone who is ever happy at all. She's a dour old woman who has never fully accepted Bev or Evie into her life; in her eyes, Joe...

We only see Peter Coleridge's father briefly, in the courtroom at the trial, and he never once speaks in the whole book. But he is the one person in the book who seems to see through Evie's guilt a...

The hotel manager at the hotel may seem like a very minor character in What I Saw and How I Lied, but he plays a huge part in shaping Evie's view of the world as an unfair, cold place. When she wat...

At the beginning, Margie is unequivocally Evie's best friend for life. They've known each other ever since they were both little kids, and Margie always stands up for Evie, even when it means picki...