Love, Loss and Little White Lies

Love, Loss and Little White Lies - India Rigg

Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Adult Fiction

Release Date: 19th May 2022

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Milly thought she'd be a master of many things at 28, but being a widow wasn't one of them. But after two years of practice, she's got really good at pretending she's okay with it.

She's gotten good at avoiding dates, dodging those awkward questions people still ask her, and even pretending on the internet she has some type of social life. But behind the screens, when the doors are closed, her life is empty and the only person she talks to is her late husband who can't even reply to her messages.

Then, she does something that changes everything again and Mizzenial is born - a platform made for authenticity, honesty and openness. Like the magazines she read as a girl, she encourages everyone to live their truth, speak straight from the heart and share their own thoughts about life. But even if this safe space she's created, she's struggling to open up and stop the little white lies that are keeping her alone.

Love, Loss and Little White Lies is a tender and authentic story about life after love - and the strange but inescapable parts of being human that break our hearts in unexplainable ways.

Milly was painfully relatable - she was just your average twenty-something woman who grew up reading Mizz for their life advice and carefully planned her Instagram posts, until one day her life didn't make sense anymore. She was like many of us when we lose someone - confused, angry, upset - and reached into that part of all us that really have no idea what we're doing.

Absorbing and endearing, this will make you laugh through tears at it's wickedly sharp observations, witty humour and genuine reflections.

This is a story for everyone who looks out into the world and wonders how everyone looks so together, how they're still going and you just … can't.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

I was gifted an advanced reviewers copy of this title in return for an honest review.

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