NEW RELEASE
The Lying Game - Tess Stimson (2013)
What would you do if the daughter you had brought up and loved was not actually your biological daughter? This is the dilemma facing Harriet. She has always wondered why she found it hard to bond with her daughter but now she has the answer. Harriet goes on a mission to track down her real daughter but doesn't consider the implications of her behaviour. She storms into her real daughter's life, causing a stir. Is it as simple as blood being thicker than water? This is an interesting premise but was shorter than most novels. It didn't have enough depth to the story and I found it hard to sympathise with some characters. But it was a fast read though that was hard to put down. (LL)
There are some things we are never meant to know ... The Lying Game, by Tess Stimson, is about two families thrown together in unusual circumstances. The summary says: "Harriet Lockwood has never really felt that strong mother-daughter bond between herself and her daughter, Florence. Then one day she finds the reason why. The girl she has raised for the last fifteen years is not her biological child. Zoey Sands has a somewhat chaotic lifestyle and is completely the opposite of Harriet Lockwood, but the one constant thing in her life is her daughter Nell. Could it be that Nell isn't her child? When Harriet turns up on Zoey's doorstep wanting to see her biological daughter, the two families are instantly thrown together and nothing can ever be the same again." The Lying Game is out in May 2013.