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    A Few Little Lies

    By Sue Welfare

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    A witty tale of modern manners in the style of Mavis Cheek.

    There are two ways to make sex pay. One is illegal and the other can land you in a whole lot of trouble.

    When writer Dora Hall’s erotic novels become successful, her agent decides to cash in with a promotional tour. Unfortunately Dora’s career is her best-kept secret, and so she is delighted when he hires a glamorous stand-in. Predatory blonde Lillian Bliss fulfils everyone’s criteria; she’s a walking sexual adventure, lapping up media attention and making it all look wonderfully simple – until she starts to deviate from Dora’s carefully written script.

    Chaos descends upon the small Norfolk town, local celebrities and politicians scrabble frantically to hide their seedy pasts and Dora’s cover is completely blown. What began with a few little lies turns into a spectacular slice of mayhem in this wickedly witty and warm debut from a tremendously talented writer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateSep 15, 2016
    ISBN9780007401154
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    A Few Little Lies
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    Sue Welfare

    Married with four sons, Sue Welfare is a writer with eight erotic novels to her credit, but finds that this is one of the worst-kept secrets in East Anglia. She was runner-up in the ‘Mail on Sunday’ novel competition in 1995, and winner of the Wyrd Short Story prize in the same year.

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    • 3/5
      When erotic novelist Dora Hall's literary agent Calvin Roberts hires a statuesque blonde called Lillian Bliss to stand-in for her during the promotion for her latest book, a series of burglaries at Dora's and Lillian's flats and Calvin's office show that someone is taking an unusual interested in what is going on. But which of them are the unknown watchers interested in, and just what are they after?The plot was good enough to keep me reading, with plenty of twists and turns, but it's not very well written. The way characters react to things seems rather exaggerated, and just doesn't ring true.