02217cam a2200349 i 4500 699834030 TxAuBib 20230316120000.0 130608s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013020210 9780544061033 Paperback 0544061039 Paperback TxAuBib rda Gillies, Andrea. The White Lie / Andrea Gillies. First Mariner Books edition. Boston : Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2013] 448 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "'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 closes 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 estate filled with threadbare furniture, patrician memories, and all the secrets that go with them. While they are gathered for their 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 changed because of it? 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. Andrea Gillies brings us inside a big house and a great family, with an elegantly written novel of eccentric characters, twists and turns and redirects, and shocking revelations'"-- Provided by publisher. 20230316. Truthfulness and falsehood Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Life change events Fiction. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / Romance / Gothic. Highlands (Scotland) Fiction. Domestic fiction. Suspense fiction.