Seven years ago, Anne White experienced every parent's worst nightmare—her daughter, Abigail, disappeared. Anne only took her eyes off her for a second...
At fifteen, Abigail walks into a police station with another young girl. When Anne gets the call to say her daughter has been found, she is elated and can't wait to bring Abigail home.
But Anne struggles to connect with her daughter. Does she just need time, or is Abigail remembering what really happened the day she disappeared?
Little White Lies begins with the end: the kidnapped child is returned to her family. It is a story about a mother's love and the cost of lies.
East's debut is told from the alternating perspectives of Anne and Jess, Abigail's adoring cousin. This book had potential which would have been realized had the story also been told from Abigail's point of view (instead of just one chapter).
There also seems to be a lot of thrillers about missing children as well as books with "lies" in the title that have saturated the thriller genre as of late. Although the writing was solid, I found the novel a little underwhelming, and it didn't deliver in the way that I had hoped.
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PHILIPPA EAST works as a Clinical Psychologist and therapist and Little White Lies is her debut.
East lives in Lincolnshire with her husband and cat.
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