White Lies

by Jo Gatford

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Pub Date 1 Jul 2014 | Archive Date 20 Feb 2015

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‘We’re similar, he and I, for the first time – all the symptoms of grief with none of the emotion. It’s not that it doesn’t hurt; I just haven’t worked out how to mourn someone I hated.’

When Matt’s half-brother Alex dies, his father refuses to hold onto the memory of his favourite son’s death. It was hard enough the first time, but breaking his dad’s heart on a weekly basis is more than Matt can bear.

Peter, Matt’s father, is terrified his dementia will let slip the secrets he’s kept for thirty-five years. Unable to distinguish between memory and delusion, he pursues one question through the maze of his mind: Where’s Alex?

Faced with the imminent loss of his father, Matt is running out of time to discover the truth about his family. Tortured by his failing memory, Peter realises that it’s not just the dementia threatening to open his box of secrets, but his conscience, too.

When Matt’s...

Advance Praise

**Winner of the 2013 Luke Bitmead Bursary**

**Longlisted for the 2013 Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize**

‘White Lies is both an unflinching depiction of dementia, old age and family relationships, and an interesting exploration of the wealth of secrets that relatives keep from each other.’Emma Healey, author of Elizabeth is Missing

'...in a novel so full of pain and upset, Gatford manages to tell the tale with humour and make her characters likable and relatable’ Cadaverine Magazine

**Winner of the 2013 Luke Bitmead Bursary**

**Longlisted for the 2013 Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize**

‘White Lies is both an unflinching depiction of dementia, old age and family relationships, and an...

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Jo Gatford is a writer from Brighton. She has at one time or another, been: a till-monkey in a book shop, a circus performer, a childminder, a cleaner of expensive Hovian houses, a baby massage teacher, a graveyard-shift hotel waitress, an antenatal yoga teacher, and musician. Her flash fiction and short stories have been published in various UK and US literary magazines, including Litro, PANK, and SmokeLong Quarterly.

Jo Gatford is a writer from Brighton. She has at one time or another, been: a till-monkey in a book shop, a circus performer, a childminder, a cleaner of expensive Hovian houses, a baby massage...