I feel East has really drawn on her strength in the field of psychology, delivering a powerful novel that rips apart a family unit and a kidnapping case.
I was interested to learn of the author of Little White Lies, Philippa East’s background. The shock return of Anne’s missing daughter after seven years away sends the focal family unit of this tale in a complete spin. A tense, complex, sensitive and twisty novel, Little White Lies looks at the devastating loss of a young child to a family unit and the aftershocks this event has in the long term. However, this turns into a living nightmare for Anne, the main protagonist and mother figure in Philippa East’s debut novel, Little White Lies. We wouldn’t be human if we didn’t tell a lie or two. As mother and daughter struggle to reconnect, Anne is worried that Abigail will remember what happened the tragic day she disappeared. In the meantime, Anne has been racked with extreme guilt, but she is also hiding something, that will come back to haunt her when her daughter returns. When Anne loses her daughter one day at a busy train station, it takes seven years for Abigail to finally make it home. Little White Lies is the story of a mother, her young daughter and a missing person’s case. What is the harm in telling a tiny little white lie from time to time? This concept is examined in Philippa East’s debut novel. Little White Lies was a riveting, but emotionally difficult read. A contemporary psychological fiction novel that looks at the return of a kidnapped girl after years away from her family, Little White Lies examines truth, lies, regret, pain, family estrangement and trauma. Little White Lies is the debut novel from British author Philippa East. Lena had stopped believing she would come home. The playmate Lena could never quite replace.
‘Here she was, my cousin, whose absence had always fallen like a shadow on our friendship. Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Suspense, ThrillerĪnne White only looked away for a second, but that’s all it took to lose sight of her young daughter.Īnd as Anne struggles to connect with her teenage daughter, she begins to question how much Abigail remembers about the day she disappeared…Īddictive, edge-of-your-seat dark women’s fiction perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult, BCC drama Thirteen, and Emma Donoghue’s Room.
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