BOOK DESCRIPTION
When everything you say is a lie, can you even remember the truth?
Annie lives a quiet, contained, content life. She goes to work. She meets her friend. She’s kind of in a relationship. She’s happy. Not lonely at all.
If only more people could see how friendly she is — how eager to help and please. Then she could tick “Full Happy Life” off her list. But no one sees that side of Annie, and she can’t understand why.
That all changes the night Chloe Hills disappears. And Annie is the last person to see her.
This is her chance to prove to everybody that she’s worth something. That is, until she becomes a suspect.
Drenched in atmosphere and taut with tension, All Your Little Lies takes a hard look at why good people do bad things.
The Author's main character Annie was a complex bag of issues who caused me to experience a wide range of emotions as the story unfolded. Annie was one of life's invisible people, a ghost, the kind of person who people looked right through and ignored. I think most people have experienced this at some point in their lives, I know I have and I know how detrimental it can be to your confidence. Annie was a lonely character which was rather sad but it wasn't difficult to understand why after you witnessed some of her interactions with other characters. We all want to be accepted by other people and I did feel empathy for Annie at times during the story but I also very often felt like reaching into my kindle and giving her a good shaking. Let's be honest, getting yourself caught up in the mystery of the disappearance of a twelve year old girl is not the cleverest way to draw attention to yourself. Especially when the last thing you want is the police or anyone else for that matter digging into your background and uncovering your terrible, shocking secret. So, I had mixed feelings about Annie, I really liked her loyal, protective mum but I can't say that I liked Annie's best friend Lauren very much. Interspersed throughout the book was the story of Six year old Lottie who found herself drawn into a twisted game that had been devised by two older girls, a game that would result in a shocking tragedy. A chilling sense of foreboding permeated Lottie's parts of the story, the reader could sense that something terrible was going to happen at some point. But who was Lottie? and how, if at all did her parts for into Annie's story?
This is also the story of the repercussions and unfair judgements that can be caused by idle gossip, rumours and conjecture both in the real world and online. How swiftly mob mentality can take control of the minds of normally law abiding people and the often tragic consequences of their actions. The author had also drawn attention to the mind blowing statistics involving missing children and the very sad but shocking truth that although we are now living in the 21st century, the amount of media attention that a missing child receives does sadly depend on their background and ethnicity. This is a extremely well written,enthralling thriller that had me captivated from the first page. I enjoyed this book so much that I read it in one sitting, I honestly couldn't put it down. This is definitely going to be one of my favourite reads of this year. Worth far more than five stars and very very highly recommended.
AUTHOR BIO
Marianne Holmes is the author of A Little Bird Told Me, published by Agora Books in 2018.She was born in Cyprus and bounced around the UK, Germany, Kuwait and Belgium with her RAF parents as a child but is now firmly based in London with her own family.She has degrees in Classics (RHUL) and Linguistics (UCL), neither of which got much use while she worked in marketing.SOCIAL MEDIATwitter @MarianneHAuthorInstagram @mariannehauthorAuthor Page on FacebookPUBLICATION DATE: 22nd October 2020PURCHASE LINK......PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU CHECK OUT THE POSTS OF THE OTHER BLOGGERS WHO HAVE STOPS ON THIS BLOG TOUR
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