When 15 year old Abigail returns to her family after being held captive for 8 years, you would expect things to be a struggle...
...and struggles there are.
Mother and daughter struggle to reconnect
Mother worries about how much daughter remembers about the day she disappeared
Daughter has trust issues...obviously
Mother is anxious that the little white lie she told all those years ago will be discovered...
Mother worries about how much daughter remembers about the day she disappeared
Daughter has trust issues...obviously
Mother is anxious that the little white lie she told all those years ago will be discovered...
East delves into what it might be like for the family when a member has been abducted and is finally returned to them, she attempts to show how the guilt and a complicated history can impact on so much more than what is obvious.
I do feel a little disappointed that we didn't hear more of Abigails experience whilst held captive, and I don't mean the gruesome details.
In my very humble opinion, I do believe East may have missed an opportunity by choosing not to give Abigail more of a voice...
...I may have connected with her character more had East chosen to add her viewpoint.
I give Little White Lies...
Library Enthusiast Acknowledgement ...
Yes I know I'm not a writer, unlike Ms East, so who am I to judge her choice of how she narrates her novel?
But if I take up Brisbane's Free Library 'Writing for Children' with Ursula Dubosarsky workshop opportunity I could give it a go!
Seriously these workshops are too good not to share, so who wants to join me and Ursula as she shares her own experience of starting stories, keeping them going and breaking open that creative part of our brain?
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