#BlogTours ‘All Your Little Lies’ by Marianne Holme

About the book…

Annie lives a quiet, contained, content life. She goes to work. She meets her friend. She’s nearly in a relationship. She’s happy. Not lonely at all.

If only more people could see how friendly she is — how eager to help and please. Then she could tick “Full Happy Life” off her list.

But no one sees that side of Annie and she can’t understand why. That all changes the night Chloe Hills disappears. And Annie is the last person to see her.

This is her chance to prove to everybody that she’s worth something. That is, until she becomes a suspect.

Huge thanks to the ever awesome Peyton at Agora Books for inviting me on the blogtour for ‘All Your Little Lies’, the second novel by Marianne Holmes which is out now!

A massive applogy to both Peyton and Marianne for the late posting,this is not the norm for me.

‘All Your Little Lies’ is a refreshing take in the unreliable narrator field of literature-Annie is a woman I found hard to warm to,someone who is both painfully narcissistic and awkward with little people skills or self awareness.

Her actions at the start of the book mean that she finds herself in the centre of a missing teen’s disappearance-the problem is that the consequences of her not remembering why she was there,impact on her understanding of the truth.

What she or perceives she sees, takes her quickly from potential witness, to suspect and as she desperately tries to convince the police that she had nothing to do with Chloe Wells vanishing,she finds herself inextricably linked to the case. And before long,her picture is in the papers and who she really is is identified….

I loved this twisting,turning read which played with the reader’s perceptions of what a female lead should be like. It challenges the notion of the likeable female,the one who does the right thing,especially where there is evidence of repressed trauma.

The parallel story belongs to the investigation,and how that is conducted within the frame of a constantly evolving social media driven community. The comments and suspicions are fuelled in a modern day witch hunt and it makes you consider where responsibilities lie when the object is to bring Chloe home.

It’s a strong novel,one that has made me want to read her debut. I really enjoyed reading ‘All Your Little Lies- and can really recommend it!

About the author…

Marianne Holmes was born in Cyprus to RAF parents but is now firmly based in London. After a sensible career in marketing, Marianne is now focusing on her love of language and writing.

‘A Little Bird Told Me’ is her first novel.

Links-http://www.marianneholmes.com/

https://www.agorabooks.co/

Twitter @AgoraBooksLDN @MarianneHAuthor