White Lie (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780544061033)

"One hot summer day, Michael Salter, nineteen-year-old scion of a posh Highland family, disappears. When his childlike aunt claims she drowned him during a fight, the family close ranks. No police. No memorial service. No titbits for village gossips. A decade of deceit begins." -- Financial Times

The Salter family orbits around Peattie House, their crumbling Scottish highlands estate filled with threadbare furniture, patrician memories, and all their inevitable secrets. While gathered to celebrate grandmother's seventieth birthday, someone breaks the silence. The web begins to unravel. But what is the white lie? How many others are built upon it? How many lives have been shaped by its shadow? Only one person knows the whole truth. From beyond the grave, Michael loops back into the past until we see, beyond perception and memory, how deeply our decisions resound, and just what is the place--and price--of grandeur.

Author: Andrea Gillies
ISBN-10: 0544061039
ISBN-13: 9780544061033
Publisher: Harpervia
Language: English
Published: 12/03/2013
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/02/2013
Booklist 10/15/2013 pg. 32
Shelf Awareness 12/27/2013