Description
Product ID: | 9781509808649 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Big Lies in a Small Town |
Authors: | Author: Diane Chamberlain |
Page Count: | 496 |
Subjects: | Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Modern and Contemporary romance, Historical romance, Historical fiction, Adult & contemporary romance, Historical romance, Historical fiction, North Carolina, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Big Lies in a Small Town is a moving and emotional novel from the internationally bestselling author Diane Chamberlain. <p><b>A decades-old disappearance, and a quest to find the truth . . .<br><br>From the bestselling author Diane Chamberlain, <i>Big Lies in a Small Town</i> is an emotional novel about two women connected by a painting that holds many dark secrets.<br><br>'Excellent' – Jodi Picoult, author of <i>Small Great Things</i></b><br><br>North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher’s life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women’s Correctional Centre. Her dream of a career in the arts is put on hold – until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will see her released immediately. Her assignment: restore an old post office mural in a sleepy southern town. What she finds under the layers of grime is a painting that tells the story of madness, violence and a conspiracy of small-town secrets.<br><br>North Carolina, 1940: Anna Dale, an artist from New Jersey, wins a national contest to paint a mural for the post office in Edenton, North Carolina. Alone in the world and desperate for work, she accepts. But what she doesn’t expect is to find herself immersed in a town where prejudices run deep, where people are hiding secrets behind closed doors and where the price for being different might just end in murder.<br><br>What happened to Anna Dale? Are the clues hidden in the decrepit mural? Can Morgan overcome her own demons to discover what exists beneath the layers of lies?<br><br><b>‘Fans of Jodi Picoult’s style will love how Diane Chamberlain writes’ – <i>Candis</i></b><br><br><b>From the author of <i>The Last House on the Street</i>.</b></p> |
Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-08-06 |