Sometimes I Lie. Alice Feeney

      

      ALICE FEENEY is a writer and journalist. She spent 16 years at the BBC, where she worked as a reporter, news editor, Arts and Entertainment producer and One O’clock News producer.

      Alice is a Faber Academy graduate from the class of 2016. She has lived in London and Sydney and has now settled in the Surrey countryside, where she lives with her husband and dog.

      Sometimes I Lie is her debut thriller and is being published around the world in 2017.

Copyright

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      First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2017

      Copyright © Alice Feeney 2017

      Alice Feeney asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Ebook Edition © March 2017 ISBN: 9780008225360

       Version: 2019-11-01

      Contents

       Cover

       About the Author

       Title Page

       Dedication

Now: Boxing Day, December 2016

Then: One week earlier – Monday, 19th December 2016

Now: Boxing Day, December 2016

Then: Monday, 19th December 2016 – Afternoon

Now: Boxing Day, December 2016 – Evening

Then: Monday, 19th December 2016 – Evening

Before: Monday, 16th September 1991

Now: Tuesday, 27th December 2016

Then: Tuesday, 20th December 2016 – Morning

Before: Thursday, 24th October 1991

Then: Tuesday, 20th December – Afternoon

Now: Wednesday, 28th December 2016 – Morning

Then: Tuesday, 20th December 2016 – Evening

       Before: Wednesday, 13th November 1991

       Now: Wednesday, 28th December 2016

       Then: Wednesday, 21st December 2016 – Morning

       Before: Saturday, 7th December 1991

       Now: Thursday, 29th December 2016

       Then: Wednesday, 21st December 2016 – Afternoon

       Before: Saturday, 14th December 1991

       Now: Thursday, 29th December 2016

       Then: Thursday, 22nd December 2016 – Morning

       Then: Thursday, 22nd December 2016 – Morning

       Before: Easter Sunday, 1992

       Now: Thursday, 29th December 2016

       Then: Thursday, 22nd December 2016 – Evening

       Before: Wednesday, 14th October 1992

       Now: Friday, 30th December 2016

       Then: Friday, 23rd December 2016 – Morning

       Before: Friday, 30th October 1992

       Now: Friday, 30th December 2016

       Then: Friday, 23rd December 2016 – Afternoon

       Before: Friday, 11th December 1992

       Now: Friday, 30th December 2016

       Then: Friday, 23rd December 2016 – Late Afternoon

       Then: Friday, 23rd December 2016 – Early Evening

       Before: Tuesday, 15th December 1992

       Now: New Year’s Eve, 2016

       Then: Friday 23rd December 2016 – Evening

       Before: Friday, 18th December 1992

       Now: New Year’s Eve, 2016

       Then: Christmas Eve 2016 – Morning

       Then: Christmas Eve 2016 – Lunchtime

       Before: Saturday, 19th December 1992

       Now: New Year’s Eve, 2016

       Then: Christmas Eve 2016 – Afternoon

       Before: Monday, 21st December 1992