Little Lies - Couverture souple

Little Lies "....in the nightmare Eve was in the workshop once more. Outside, the ice-cream van trinkled discordantly by and Eve knew someone very angry was beyond the locked door. It rattled now, the chunky bolt holding good. There was a heavy key in her hand and an eye peering through the keyhole. Eve rammed the key into place and turned it. Beyond there was a sharp noise of anger but Eve didn’t care, she was double locked in now and help would come......" It doesn't seem five minutes since Eve, Fran and Rebecca were riding around the neighbourhood on their bikes but somehow suddenly they are going to be forty and with the party planning comes retrospection. When Eve begins to research her family history she is revisited by an old childhood nightmare. As the nightmare fear starts to seep into her everyday life Eve knows she must ask questions about the blanks in her past. The three friends rally together to exorcise their ghosts and reconcile past mistakes unaware that they are about to discover that family history is about the lies your parents tell you and the secrets that they don't.

Praise for Helen Slavin ..." A clever, concise and original debut about life, loss and love. " Kirkus Review "....Ultimately, Slavin has something more subversive up her sleeve than mere entertainment: in conjuring a world of ghosts... she wickedly skewers a society whose obsession with the afterlife shortchanges life itself."—The New York Times