I'm afraid I really didn't like this book. Abigail was abducted when she was 8 years old and now, 8 years later, she is back with her family. Sounds like the makings of a good plot. However, I found the story to be very far fetched, the characters were uninspiring and the writing is not very engaging. Thanks to NetGalley for a preview copy.
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I enjoyed this book. The story was original and the knowledge that Abigail's mother had a guilty secret kept me turning the pages until late in the night. Unfortunately I found the end of the book a little underwhelming. I was expecting a shocking admission from Anne.and it didn't live up to my expectations. In spite of this I would still recommend the book.

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Little White Lies might just be a 'marmite' book, you'll either like it or not.
I liked it - it kept me in suspense, it fed me some red herrings, it led me to form assumptions but most of all it kept me reading to the end. The story centres around Abigail. Abigail went missing at 8 years old, Abigail came back 7 years later. Two families lives are in turmoil, then and now. I must admit I didn't really like any of the characters that much. Apart from Abigail they all came across as quite needy and selfish, but the storyline itself was well written and intriguing.
Thank you to Netgalley, Phillipa East and the publisher for an advance copy.

It’s every parents worse nightmare; your child goes missing but then years later she returns but is everything as it seems? Abigail is a 15 year old girl who goes missing but is suddenly returned to her family buy things don’t seem to add up. Complex but very well written!

This is a difficult book to get into and the story was very far fetched. Sorry but this isn't a book I would be recommending

An enthralling read, totally had me engrossed. It raises lots of questions as to what happens next - once a missing person is recovered. Very realistic and shockingly so. Once you start reading, you won't be able to put it down.

This book is not as good as I thought it would be. It did not grip me at all. I really did not like the ending. I thought it was not believable at all.

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy.

I really struggled with this book. I just found it very hard to read, long drawn out and boring with not much happening. It was a bit far fetched and unbelievable. Not for me I'm afraid

I was really looking forward to this , the plot is a good one . Abigail is abducted and years later walks into a police station with another younger girl . It's a difficult readjustment for her family . The book is told from Abigail's mum and cousins pov . I really struggled to engage with the book , I found it slow and just wasn't for me

Anne’s daughter Abigail was abducted when she was 8, now 7 years later Abigail has walked into a police station. Relief that Abigail is home her family want to move on but something is holding them back. Jess, Abigail’s cousin is trying her best to help but people are lying. Told from Anne and Jess’s POV, this is a brilliant story of lies, loss and pain. I really enjoyed this.
Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for this arc in exchange for my honest review.

This book had the power to be something so good and clever. But unfortunately it just never gripped me. No matter what I did I just could not get sucked into the story which is a shame as it just wasnt what I was expecting.

Look away for a minute, distracted by your babies and lose your daughter forever- or have you? Abigail, lost for years suddenly appears at a police station and returns herself to her family. Conditioned by the man who took her she struggles to fit back in to family life and seems torn as to whether she did the right thing escaping at all.

The relationships between Abigail and her parents and siblings and her close knit cousin and Aunt and Uncle are well told and it seems that they will help bring her back whole again as the police narrow in on her abductor.
however cracks appear in the story of how Abigail was snatched and guilt from many directions rises to the fore.

Full of twisted relationships, manipulations, secrets and lies this was a great read- keeps the pages turning well into the night and at the end you still don't feel completely at ease with the result.

Whilst I was interested in where this story was going, I didn't connect with the characters at all. The story itself was OK, the twist wasn't mind blowing and the ending went a bit off topic. I feel there could have been a really great story there but unfortunately the author didn't quite deliver it. Not bad but not great.

2.5 rounded up to 3. stars.

There was something about this book and I couldn’t put my finger on what it was - but I was hooked as soon as I picked it up.
The story is told through the eyes of Anne White who’s daughter Abigail was abducted 7 years ago - and Jess Brady - Anne’s niece and best friend. The story starts sort of back to front - Abigail has been found - she’s coming home. But where has she been? Who has she been with? What does she remember? Hat exactly is it that DS Macarthy can’t quite put his finger on?
A really gripping book with a bunch of twists and turns that I didn’t see coming. A great read.

I really enjoyed this book but found a few things defied belief. Mainly as at least one other reviewer says that Abigail was returned to her family by the police with no in-depth assessment or psychological counseling Also the issue of how her education was up to date with no schooling. The book was about relationships. Lilian was a strong manipulative person who dominated her more indecisive sister and to a certain extent her (Lilian's) husband. Jess wanted Abigail to be exactly the same person she was before she was taken and obviously Abigail's experiences had changed her. Abigail struggled to fit back into her family as she couldn't understand certain things that didn't ring true. All in all it was a complex story that I found gripping.

Gripping the further into the book you get the tighter the hold on you all I wanted to do was to continue reading every spare moment became time with this book. This would be a one day read if I was able to not do anything else. Tears were shed at a few points in the book. A family struggles with a trauma no one should ever experience too many what ifs, too many questions how do they get through and survive the trauma and aftermath but there is light at the end of the tunnel an ending unexpected but perfect

I enjoyed this book right up until the ending really.

Abigail is found very close to the start of the book, so there is no secret there. However, when she returns to live with her family, she seems a very different person to how she was before. This seemed obvious to me - it had been 7 years. Abigails mother annoyed me as she seemed a complete wimp, I felt like giving her a good talking to and telling her to buck her ideas up!

I thought that Abigail had Stockholm Syndrome - indeed it is never explained why Abigail says at the beginning 'he needs me' - nor is it explained why the kidnapper takes another child.

I felt there were a lot of loose ends in the book and the explanation of what happened to Abigail wasn't really satisfactpry - not for me anyway.

I would like to thank the author, the publisher and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read an ARC of this book, unfortunately it wasn't really what I thought it would be, it had potential that I didn't feel it quite achieved.

Really enjoyed this book.keeps you guessing all the way through.just had to keep on reading this to find out exactly what happened to abigail.you never know who is lying or teliing the truth.plenty of twists and turns.

I was intrigued by this novel as it sounded similar to the BBC One drama Thirteen, which I enjoyed. However I found this book hard to get into and didn't really engage with any of the characters at all - which is a shame. The plot is perhaps unneccessarily convoluted with red herrings and twists, and a shock ending. It took awhile to get going also and so I lost interest at times. A shame - and maybe I'm just an inpatient reader.