In a suburban Atlanta neighborhood where divorce is as rampant as kudzu, Mary Bliss McGowan doesn't notice that her own marriage is in trouble until the summer night she finds a note from her husband, telling her he's gone -- and taken the family fortune with him.
Stunned and humiliated, a desperate Mary Bliss, left behind with her seventeen-year-old daughter, Erin, and a mountain of debt, decides to salvage what's left of her life by telling one little bitty lie.
At first, Mary Bliss simply tells friends and family that Parker is out of town on a consulting job. Then the lies start to snowball, until Parker turns up dead. Or does he?
Mary Bliss's formerly staid existence careens into overdrive as she copes with an oversexed teenager, a mother-in-law with Ethel Merman delusions, and the sudden but delicious shock of finding herself pursued by two men: the next-door neighbor who's looking for a suitable second wife, and a dangerously attractive ex-cop who's looking for the truth about Parker McGowan.
Little Bitty Lies is a comic Southern novel about all the important things in life: marriage and divorce, mothers and daughters, friendship and betrayal, small-town secrets, and one woman's lifelong quest for home -- and the perfect recipe for chicken salad.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Not Up To Snuff:
I'm late to enter the world of MK Andrews' readers. Started with Savannah Blues, which was all that and a bag of chips. It was SO much fun I bought most everything else she'd written. Little Bitty Lies was, occasionally, worth the read. So, it fell into the category, for me, of mostly-speed-read. I've, since, read earlier of her things (under a different name) and later of her things, so I insist this isn't representative. But, in this one case, she seemed to phone it in.
Little Bitty Lies:
As always Mary Kay Andrews delivers an entertaining and uniquely Southern novel. She has a unique style that reads easily and you always want to turn the next page to see what she has come up with next.
Somewhat Disturbing?:
I'd picked up Andrews' "Hissy Fit" at random a couple weeks ago and LOVED it. So much so that I decided I had to read her other books. Savannah Blues was good and I eagerly looked forward to cracking open "Little Bitty Lies." I don't get the witty humor that is supposed to be found throughout this novel. A woman and her best friend plot the fake death of her husband? I really, honestly, tried to find the elements of Andrews' writing that I've enjoyed in the first two of her books that I've read, and am... more info
Perfect Summer Get-Away:
Little Bitty Lies is the perfect book to lose yourself in this summer. You'll adore quirky Mary Bliss McGowan and wish you had a best friend just like Katharine to keep you up to your eyeballs in gin, bloody mary's, adventures and trouble. Keep this book poolside, beachside, tubside, because you won't want to put it down before Parker McGowan comes back from the dead. Lucy Adams, author of If Mama Don't Laugh, It Ain't Funny
