Andrea Gillies has had a diverse career encompassing writing, publicity work, the editorship of the Good Beer Guide, travel and reference book editing, and writing a drinks column for Scotland on Sunday newspaper. Her first book, Keeper, won the Orwell Prize and the Wellcome Trust Book Prize. This is her first novel.
Absolutely searing... we have a major new talent in our midst.
*Daily Express*
Gillies' beautifully crafted debut combines page-turning aplomb
with psychological insight... She is a tantalising storyteller,
dropping in clues, vertiginous surprises and unexpected
revelations.
*Marie Claire*
One hot summer day, Michael Salter, 19-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. Narrated by Michael from beyond the grave, Andrea
Gillies' debut novel unpicks the mesh of lies, some white, some
not, that entangle the Salters, bringing the closed world of the
big house to life with cinematic clarity. A gripping exploration of
the stories families tell about themselves, myths sometimes more
potent than the truth."
*Financial Times*
Fizzing with energy, suspense and tense dialogue, this is an
elegantly brilliant novel.
*Red*
There's an echo of Virginia Woolf that lifts Gillies' work above
the average family drama... This is an unusual, unsettling, often
lovely story that plumbs the depths of what family means.
*The Scotsman*
The White Lie is a story of decline, of a crumbling hierarchy
taking desperate measures to save face before the hordes sweep them
away. This is a page-turner. It is also, finally, very moving.
*The Guardian*
Gillies excels in her portrait of a landscape that consumes the
merely human; eats it for lunch, as it were, and has slowly, over
many generations, created a family in its own image.
*The Times*
A really terrific read... Elegant, well written, genuinely
gripping.
A wonderfully compelling portrait of a family haunted by secrets
and lies... pitch perfect on the chilling, devastating consequences
of guilt.'
A fond meditation on the calming virtues of donkeyhood and
daydreaming... a wistful travelogue
*The Sunday Times*
Gillies writes magnificently on everything she touches.
*The Times*
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