Little White Lies with its dual narratives presents the views of an adult and a child who are each enmeshed in the drama of an unexpected return after abduction – Anne and Jess are unaware of how much insight the other holds. Abigail isn’t a sad shivering wreck, she’s angry. Little White Lies doesn’t pretty up the realities of the homecoming though, for it doesn’t return a picture perfect little girl back into the White family. If you are the kind of reader that shrinks from picking up ‘under the stairs’ misery-lit novels about abducted children, rest assured that this novel does not spend time on the gory descriptives. Written from the perspective of Anne and of Abigail’s young cousin Jess, Little White Lies is a deep family exploration into what happens when a missing child re-enters the life of her loved ones. How much would a child remember about the day she went missing at only eight years of age? Now with all the media attention on the miraculous return of Abigail, Fraser reappears in Anne’s life.Īnne has a secret about the day that Abigail went missing, one that she hasn’t managed to keep entirely to herself.

Lilian, Anne’s forthright sister, never had a kind word to say about Abigail’s biological father Fraser and it was an effort to extract Anne from her toxic domestic situation when Abigail was small. Receiving a call that Abigail has walked into a suburban police station, holding the hand of another missing child, floors the Whites and opens the floodgates anew to all the questions of who took their daughter all those years ago.Ībigail is now a troubled teenager and has little to offer up about what happened in the intervening years.

Anne has kept her family together whilst managing her grief, attending to the necessary tasks of raising her twins and being a supportive spouse to her husband Robert. The life of the White family moved on, as it had to, after the disappearance of young Abigail from a busy London subway platform. Tapping into the guilt of parents everywhere who have all had their days where it simply went to hell on public transport, Little White Lies is a novel about repercussions, regret and the tangled webs we weave.

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