Your whole life has been a lie…
One email
is all it takes to turn Eve’s world upside down. It contains a picture of her
true birth mother, Stella, and proves that Eve’s entire life with her
adoptive parents has been a lie.
Now she must unravel the mystery of Stella’s dark past. But what Eve finds will
force her to take enormous risks, which put her – and her new-born
baby – in immediate danger…
What did I think?
I always get a thrill when a novel is set in my native North East, so I was surprised and delighted when I was reading All the Little Lies as I had no idea that Chris Curran had part set her new novel in Gateshead and Newcastle.
Aside from the amazing location, All the Little Lies is such an intriguing story with Eve trying to find out more about her birth mother, Stella. She knows her adoptive parents know more than they are letting on and I had a constant question mark over my head as I wondered just what they were trying to hide.
As Eve digs into Stella's story, we are treated to flashbacks of Stella's life: from her meagre beginnings as a young child in Newcastle to fame as an artist before her life was tragically cut short. I loved the tempestuous story of Stella and Maggie; best friends or frenemies as I liked to think of them because Maggie was so jealous of Stella's artistic talent and beauty. I didn't trust Maggie one bit and when she invited Stella to stay with her in Italy, I knew it would all end in tears.
I love reading a fiction book and learning something I didn't know. I was so surprised to read about an art installation in Gateshead's Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art that I was completely unaware of. I have visited The Baltic on numerous occasions but I have always taken the supersonic glass lift to admire the views of the Newcastle Gateshead quayside on the way. Thanks to Chris Curran, next time I visit I will be taking the stairs to experience Mark Wallinger's Heaven and Hell art installation of a staircase that appears to stretch to infinity.
All the Little Lies is not only gripping and intriguing but it has an added hint of danger as Eve's digging into Stella's past unearths secrets that somebody wants to keep well and truly buried. Where lies are involved, you can always expect twists and turns aplenty and All the Little Lies certainly delivers in the surprising twists stakes, many of which I really didn't see coming.
I chose to read an ARC and this is my honest and unbiased opinion.
My rating:
Buy it from Amazon
About the author:
All the Little Lies is Chris
Curran’s fourth psychological thriller for Harper Collins Killer Reads. She lives
in East Sussex and writes, standing up, in a room with no view. When
inspiration falters she finds tea (Earl Grey, hot) and a bout of ironing are
very therapeutic. In breaks between books she dusts, cooks, walks by the sea
and reads – but mostly reads.
Find
her at:
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@Christi_Curran
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