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One Little Lie
The thought-provoking read perfect for your book club! 'Wild and brilliantly written' (Vogue Williams)
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About The Book
One little white lie. One tiny omission. A slight manipulation of the truth. But that moment would change everything…
'A big tangled mess of lies that I couldn't put down … Wild and brilliantly written, I loved it' VOGUE WILLIAMS
‘A must for your book club. Provocative, emotionally challenging and everyone will have an opinion - guaranteed’ IMOGEN CLARK, Reluctantly Home
‘Despicable, controversial and peep-through-your-fingers compelling’ RACHEL SARGEANT, The Perfect Neighbours
‘Will stay with me for a long time’ LOUISE JENSEN, The Intruders
It was the small things that weighed Sarah down. The dirty dishes abandoned in the sink. The empty bottle of milk put back inside the fridge. The clothes left crumpled on the floor. A life of never-ending mental load and constant demands. Somewhere along the way, Sarah had become a caretaker for everyone around her, both at home and at work.
Then came the lie. One harmless white lie, she thought. Just a little shift in the narrative.
And for a while everything became better. But one lie wasn’t enough. It was soon followed by another. And another. Until the truth became something unrecognizable, a distant memory swallowed by fiction.
She never intended for it to spiral this way. It was just one little white lie. But the truth would inevitably threaten everything she held dear…
Readers can't stop talking about One Little Lie… (5 star reader reviews *****)
‘A sharp, thought-provoking domestic drama that explores how a single white lie can spiral into something far more destructive’
‘Loved this read … It felt brilliant and fresh within the genre’
‘A clever, thought-provoking book … would make a brilliant book club read’
‘Despicable, polarising and uncomfortably compelling. A good one for book clubs to discuss’
‘I expected domestic drama. What I got was a slow-motion emotional breakdown of epic proportions’
'A big tangled mess of lies that I couldn't put down … Wild and brilliantly written, I loved it' VOGUE WILLIAMS
‘A must for your book club. Provocative, emotionally challenging and everyone will have an opinion - guaranteed’ IMOGEN CLARK, Reluctantly Home
‘Despicable, controversial and peep-through-your-fingers compelling’ RACHEL SARGEANT, The Perfect Neighbours
‘Will stay with me for a long time’ LOUISE JENSEN, The Intruders
It was the small things that weighed Sarah down. The dirty dishes abandoned in the sink. The empty bottle of milk put back inside the fridge. The clothes left crumpled on the floor. A life of never-ending mental load and constant demands. Somewhere along the way, Sarah had become a caretaker for everyone around her, both at home and at work.
Then came the lie. One harmless white lie, she thought. Just a little shift in the narrative.
And for a while everything became better. But one lie wasn’t enough. It was soon followed by another. And another. Until the truth became something unrecognizable, a distant memory swallowed by fiction.
She never intended for it to spiral this way. It was just one little white lie. But the truth would inevitably threaten everything she held dear…
Readers can't stop talking about One Little Lie… (5 star reader reviews *****)
‘A sharp, thought-provoking domestic drama that explores how a single white lie can spiral into something far more destructive’
‘Loved this read … It felt brilliant and fresh within the genre’
‘A clever, thought-provoking book … would make a brilliant book club read’
‘Despicable, polarising and uncomfortably compelling. A good one for book clubs to discuss’
‘I expected domestic drama. What I got was a slow-motion emotional breakdown of epic proportions’
Product Details
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK (July 2, 2026)
- Length: 400 pages
- ISBN13: 9781398509559
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Raves and Reviews
A must for your book club. Provocative, emotionally challenging and everyone will have an opinion - guaranteed
– Imogen Clark, multi-million copy bestselling author
This beautifully written story about how one impulsive lie can spiral into catastrophic consequences will stay with me for a long time. Does one bad choice really make you a bad person?
– Louise Jensen, million-copy selling author
Dark, original, thought-provoking, and utterly compelling
– Louise Beech, award-winning author
A taut, emotioonal read guaranteed to provoke heated debate about what women do, and do not want from domestic life and marriage. This thought provoking book asks questions about gender roles and where responsibility lies. I raced through it, and the questions it poses have stayed with me well beyond closing the final page
– Clover Stroud, The Wild Other
An intense read with a plot that spirals towards disaster, One Little Lie is deeply provocative, often painful, and sure to get conversations flowing. I couldn't look away even when I was screaming in frustration at each dangerous choice that Sarah, the central character, made
– Lucy Ashe, Clara & Olivia
‘ne Little Lie ties together the urgent and mundane with expert precision. Just when you are lulled by the familiarity of a scene, you're hit with another jolt of the dark and unexpected. You won't want to put it down
– Gemma Hartley, author of Fed Up: Navigating and Redefining Emotional Labor for Good
‘Despicable, controversial and peep-through-your-fingers compelling. A marmite must-read for book clubs’
– Rachel Sargeant, bestselling author of The Perfect Neighbours
[One Little Lie] is so well researched and plays with the dark and light of lies and trust in a way that made me try to understand Sarah’s behaviour, veering from sympathy to disgust. Fabulous read’
– Jacqueline Ward, The Replacement
This novel articulates something many people feel but rarely say out loud: how easy it is to lose yourself in the care of everyone else. Provocative, powerful and impossible not to talk about afterwards
– Celia Silvani, author of Just Between Mothers
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