Eight year old Abigail was missing for seven years but now she is home. What happened to her? Where was she and the big question is whose fault was it that she was missing? Was it just another kidnapping? What is the family hiding? This is a must read that will keep you hooked to the very last page.

A dark and intense read. It was thrilling. Loved it and I was so surprised by the ending. Brilliant and well written. It is clear the author has a sound knowledge of psychological disorders x

Thanks Netgalley for the chance to review this book. 
It was not my favourite book. It seemed really slow and the Mums character came across at a bit emotionless. I was disappointed as I had really high hopes for this after reading the synopsis.

Never take your eyes of your child is the motto of this fantastic piece of fiction. A mother looks away for two minutes and her child is gone. Seven years later Abigail walks into a police station with another child. Once reunited with her family cracks appear. She hates to be touched, her twin siblings are a burden, she won't talk about anything. Her mother is afraid as to how much Abigail remembers about the day she went missing. 
Her cousin Jess seems to be the only person she still feels close to and all Jess wants is the Abigail that was. While Abigail's mother, step-father, auntie and uncle struggle to cope with her aloofness they also have to cope with the arrest of her kidnapper and the arrival of Abigail's biological father.
Secrets, lies, abuse and trust. This is a hell of a book, cleverly written, twisted and gripping. Highly recommended.

It took me a while to get going with this book. Usually if I am hooked I can finish one in a couple of days. This took me a little longer. The storyline itself was steady however, sometimes a little slow and the twists and turns came more towards the last quarter of the novel. Overall a good story about how one moment can change a life... Abigail was only 7 years old when she went missing, now 8 years later she is stood at the front desk of a police station with another young girl.

What happened to her? How did she go missing? What secrets are the family hiding? Will her life get back to normal?

I kept reading to give an accurate review, otherwise I would have given up on it.  Anne, a mother, is a strangely detached unemotional woman.  Maybe this is the point?  It just did not capture me at all.  It was slow, repetitive, unlikeable and not a thriller. Just did not resonate with me at all.

For me this was quite a disturbing.read. I had to remind myself it was fiction. I did read this over two days. Tense and emotional, I had to read to the end.

Pacey, emotional, quite different from other thrillers with a similar premise. A quick read, whizzed through it!

A totally engaging and absorbing book! A young girl goes missing on a crowded station platform and 7 years later walks into a police station with a little girl who was abducted a couple of days earlier. All the people closest to her, mother, stepfather, auntie, uncle, cousin and twin brothers are all happy to have her home but what secrets are they keeping between them? Each layer of deceit is gradually peeled away leaving a devastating truth at its kernel. Highly recommend

I was really hoping my first book of the new year would be a good one but I was just so totally at odds with this one.

Portrayed as a thriller it's anything but. It feels completely flat and totally devoid of any emotion.

A real slow story that continually dragged and I just found so difficult to get into, I tried leaving it for a few days and going back to it but it just didn't grab my attention in any way whatsoever. 

Sadly a 1* from me.

Thanks to netgalley and HQ for the ARC.

There sometimes appeared to be conflicting views but there would be as the story was told from 2 different view points, lots f things didn’t seem to add up and I found it a confusing story

I hate to give up on a book, but this i just couldn't get into. I tried leaving it for a few days and trying again but to no avail.

Not sure if it is the same for most readers/reviewers but there is always a point in a book when I know it is a book I will like and I start to get really involved.  A small number don't have this point.  Some books have the point in the first few pages but for some it takes well into the second half of the book to reach it.
I did not reach this point with Little White Lies until I was three quarters through so I found for most of the book I was turning the pages not in the 'can't wait/put down' feeling expressed in the summary reviews but in the 'really hope something happens soon' mode.
But, when it did, I found the last 25% to be absolutely brilliant and a superb read.  I never knew how it was going to finish but you always have the feeling there is something else behind the disappearance. I can't give it a 5 star rating as it took so long for me to get into the book but I would rate the last 25% as 10 stars!
My only concern with the ending was what I define as a Hollywood ending. I would have preferred a confrontation ending primarily with words.  Still, you have to make up your own mind but certainly give it a read.

A good book, enjoyable and real but lots of questions through as to why people are behaving like they are. Did expect a bigger twist but still good.

This book was really odd to me as I assume it is supposed to be a thriller but it is far from it. The book is very slow-paced and drags on and it became clear to me about 50% in that the reveal wouldn't be exciting, there just was no way it could be done with what we had already seen before. 
The story is told from the perspective of Anne and Jess. Anne is the mother of Abigail and Jess is Abigail's cousin. When Abigail is 8 she goes missing in London and she isn't found, not until she's 15 and she's returned to her family. The first issue with this book is the characters we see it from, they both provide a very distant and far away feeling throughout the book, you honestly would have thought they were people in the family who weren't in the heart of the drama. Although Anne is her mum she really provides nothing of interest, her cousin Jess is too obsessed with being the 8 year she and her cousin were that anything from her was useless because it was clear she had no idea of the scope of emotions her cousin could be feeling. 
The book lacked any sort of emotion around what Abigail may be feeling or going through and I just found that odd, we're witnessing a child who has been abducted come back but her mum is too busy harbouring some guilt about the day and just seems to sit in the housekeeping notes on her daughter. 
Honestly, the lie that we find out isn't groundbreaking and really doesn't change anything as it seems like Abigail would still have been abducted. 
I'm sorry to say this book was just really flat and devoid of any emotion or thriller material.

I found this book slow and difficult to read. In fact I put it down and then came back to it twice as I simply had to know what happened!

Seven years ago Abigail White disappeared whilst travelling on the underground with her mother and twin brothers. Unbelievably, seven years later she is found and is now approaching her sixteenth birthday. Understandably her behaviour is difficult and it soon becomes clear that there seems to be more to her disappearance than was first thought. What does she remember and what is it that her mother seems to be hiding?
I really enjoyed this book, thank you Netgalley for letting me read an early copy. It had me gripped, was well constructed and absolutely believable. If you enjoy a good mystery, you’ll enjoy this.

An intense web of secrets, a mysterious lie hanging over them. Little White Lies was a riveting read showing how complex trauma is and how it destroys not only the victim but also their families. 

The two different perspectives worked well and the voices were distinct. I found Jess naive and somewhat childlike and I felt sorry for her. I didn't connect well with Anne but only because I knew she was hiding something and I couldn't trust her. 

It was intriguing to see what could happen when a missing child is returned after so many years. How it can tear families apart and change not only the kidnapped child but also the ones closest to them. 

I quickly realised that all was not as it seemed and some of the characters were hiding things. Anne's reaction to her daughter coming home was somewhat strange and angered me at points. I couldn't understand why she reacted the way she did, however, it all becomes clear at the end. 

Overall, this book was riveting, exciting and kept me engaged. I had so many questions and I couldn't stop reading because I needed to know the whole truth. A great debut novel and I'm so excited for the author's future books!

I'd love to get in touch with the Publisher as when I was trying to find this title it came up with many other titles with the same or similar names, then there is the series with the similar name "Big Little Lies".  

For me the book dragged and I skipped pages though I did want to see what happened at the end so I kept reading.  As suggested by the title and the nature of the book it is a sad book especially reading it as a mother.  It's frightening to think of how a child could be abducted though in this case, the daughter returns several years later.

Aspects of the book were unrealistic but we would be going into spoiler territory and I'm reluctant to do that.

Many thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for my ARC version of the book.

Like others have said, this one started out a tad slow but the last third was quite addictive and I had to know how it ended. Very well developed character world and I give it thumbs up.