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.

Abigail is restored to her family after going missing when she was eight.  She is now 15 and has lots of baggage.  The story is told from her mum's and her cousin's viewpoints,  each having alternate chapters.  There are secrets connected with how she disappeared which made it impossible for me to stop reading. 
I found it difficult to identify with Abigail, perhaps the distress she suffered was underplayed, her cousin Jess was also not well portrayed and the ending was abrupt but I did enjoy the book.

Don’t want to be negative about this book which will appeal to readers of the “little... lying” genre but it’s not my sort of thing. Missing child turns up several years after disappearing. Cast of thousand (multi generational to appeal to a range of audiences?) all of whom have back story evidence or something murky in their past.  At times read like one of my students essays with strange and unusual imagery which seemed unnatural and forced. But as earlier stated, not my genre.

I thought the idea behind the book was good, but it all seemed rather unbelievable.  Abigail is not a convincing character, and I really can't see how she has managed to keep up her studies while she was not going to school.  No-one seems particularly bothered about Abigail's ordeal, especially the police.  The ending was over-dramatic, and sadly the book wasn't as gripping as it promised to be.

I received a copy to review from Netgalley

Here is the blurb

"Anne White only looked away for a second, but that’s all it took to lose sight of her young daughter.

But seven years later, Abigail is found.

And as Anne struggles to connect with her teenage daughter, she begins to question how much Abigail remembers about the day she disappeared…"

The story switches between 2 different perspectives, Anne the mum and Jess the cousin.  I really enoyed this approach.  All the way through the story it hints that things are not all they seem on the day Abigail disappeared and this kept me hooked and wanting to read on to find out what the big secret is.  I found the big reveal about the day she disappeared a bit disappointing if I am honest and felt a bit like "is that it?" However, I did like how the book dealt with the story line and the complexity of the feelings of the characters involved.  I did feel the book didn't need the bit at the end to sell the story as I felt it was more a story about relationships rather than cliffhangers but that is only my opinion.  Overall, a good read that keeps you wanting to read on.

What a fantastic read! Could hardly put it down!
Great story, keeping you guessing with the twists and turns of the plot throughout.
Hearing the story from different peoples perspective made you really feel like part of it.
Highly recommend!

I liked nearly everything about this apart from the bog-standard title. Please, enough with the “Lies” titles, now, publishers!

Anyway, Little White Lies *sigh* has an original premise: Abigail, who disappeared seven years ago when she was just eight years old, is back, walking into a police station one day holding another, younger missing child by the hand. The now fifteen year old Abigail is returned to her family - mum Anne, stepdad Robert and her young twin brothers - but of course it’s not all plain sailing. Abigail isn’t the girl she was, and Anne in particular seems strangely disconnected from her daughter, although Abigail’s return is all she’s dreamed of.

Although we know Abigail has been held captive for seven years, it’s a long time before we learn much at all about what happened during  that time. The focus is on her return and its impact on her and those around her, told through the eyes of mum Anne and cousin Jess. Clearly, there are things the adults are not telling, and Abigail’s confusion, anger, fear and deeply conflicted feelings about her captor (powerfully expressed by the “victim impact statement” she tries and fails to write) are very well rendered. I really felt for her.

Missing child thrillers are ten a penny at the moment (rather like books with “lies” in the title) but I haven’t read one quite like this before, which starts with Abigail being found, and remains in that time frame - there are none of those ubiquitous flashbacks/dual time-frame narratives which are so popular now, and this was strangely refreshing. As I said above, the focus is firmly on the present and how things play out after Abigail returns... ultimately coming to a frightening head.

The premise of this book held promise but there was just too much missing to make it believable.  If a daughter had been abducted for 7 years, would a mother not talk to her in depth to find out not only what happened for those seven years, but how her daughter now felt.  Wouldn't Abigail have had to have intense therapy to cope with life?  How did she manage to be educated to GCSE standard?  I'm sorry but I just wasn't convinced.

Really enjoyed this!!! It kept me guessing until the last second. My loyalties changed from chapter to chapter with each character and I was gripped!

Well written and intriguing. Kept me guessing right until the end and I really didn’t see the final twists coming. I felt it’s portrayal of a child reunited after being abducted from her family was sadly realistic. The return full of problems and complexities and not just a ‘happy ever after’ scenario. A great read.

This was a 'heart in your mouth' read from page one. My loyalties towards characters changed from chapter to chapter and it was an emotional rollercoaster of emotions.. An incredible portrayal of a damaged family, a brutal and twisted abduction but with a warmth of feeling towards parents and family members who had just made a split second wrong decision. Any mother who has ever been to the depths of despair will want to read this book. 5 stars.

Wowza! What a belter of a book! Abigail White has been missing for seven years. Now aged 15, she walks into a police station in London clutching the hand of six year old Tonia Dillon, also missing. She returns home to her mother Anne, stepfather Robert and their twins Laurie and Sam. This should have been a happy reunion but it’s not. What is revealed is a very tense and emotional suspense thriller that keeps your attention throughout. The story is told by Anne, Abigail’s cousin Jess to whom she had been very close and briefly by Lilian, Jess’s mum and Anne’s sister. 

This is a very well written novel with a number scenes where your jaw drops in shock at what unfolds. The characters are very good too. Abigail is understandably a tense mess after what she suffers during her captivity and I really feel for her as apart from Robert and Jess, nobody scoops her up and gives her much warmth and love. Anne’s reaction is strange and you don’t know why there are so many barriers between them until the whole thing unravels. The book contains all the characters a good book needs - several you like, one or two you puzzle over, one bitch, one who’s controlling and cold. As you read on, the whole family scenario feels wrong, not normal so it’s very intriguing. You have so many questions in your head to try to scrape past the all the secrets, guilt and lies to get to the truth of this deep mystery at the heart of it. There are a lot of fascinating, tense and dramatic scenes and things you don’t see coming and you just hope this fractured family can heal. The ending is so tense and exciting I hardly dare breathe! 

Overall, most definitely my kind of book. It’s one I would recommend for fans of the twisty, suspense genre. Many thanks to NetGalley and HQ Stories, Harper Collins for the ARC.

Abigail is abducted as an eight year old from outside a tube station, after becoming separated from mother Anne. At fifteen she walks into a police station holding the hand of a younger girl. She is soon reunited with her family. How will they all adjust? What are the little white lies? The narrative largely switches between Anne and Abigail's cousin Jess.

I found this book well written but it began to drag. I became impatient. At about 40% I started to skim read and skip ahead.

This book held so much promise and ironically had a slightly similar theme to a Net Galley story I had just finished, which I'm afraid was a much better read. The characters in this book were a mixed bunch, Robert, the step dad was lovely all the way through, Anne the mother was quite unlikeable at times, the twins were adorable and Aunt Lillian and Fraser were a really nice aunt and uncle, wished they'd been mine. Jess was a whole different ball game though. I could understand that she and Abigail were very close growing up until Abigail disappeared but it seemed to be a pretty claustrophobic relationship. This made me wonder if in fact Abigail and Jess were twins (which obviously runs in the family) and Jess had been given to Lillian and Fraser as they couldn't have children of their own. This would would have add a whole new viewpoint but might have been one to follow instead and this would explain the cousins uncanny telepathic link. I did think it rather unrealistic that the police let Abigail go home only a few hours after turning up at a police station. Surely she would have been given a thorough medical and been interviewed by specialist psychologists and appropriate police personnel for a few days allowing her to acclimatise to being free of the man who abducted her. .They would have wanted to know the details of what had happened to her for the last seven or eight years, no one seemed totally sure about the age thing. I' m afraid I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would and the shock towards the end was a bit weird and unfathomable. Having said all that I would definitely read another book by Philippa.