THE WHITE LIE (OLD TITLE:SANCTUARY WOOD)

Book ID/图书代码： 05380011B46189

English Summary/英文概要： Sanctuary Wood is set in the Scottish Highlands, in an old house beside a deep, dark lake, the depths of which have never been discovered. The novel is about the death of a family and about two particular deaths by drowning within that family. It’s about the secrets that are kept and the lies that are told about those deaths in order to keep the family together. It’s about loss and grief and betrayal running like a genetic disorder through the lives of every one of the family. And, in the end, it’s about how, regardless of what the living want, the dead will tell their stories.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 故事发生在苏格兰高地，在一座旧宅旁边有一条深不可测的湖。那里隐藏着许多的秘密和谎言，关于离奇死亡事件缄口不语，只为将整个家庭紧密团结在一起。在那里，失去、悲伤以及背叛就像基因混乱在这群人里蔓延肆虐。最终，死亡是唯一的证明。(XJJ)

Awards/获奖情况："A white lie is, by convention, a harmless thing... Gillies explores in this novel how such lies may be very far from innocent in intention or in effect... the truth beginning to work its way to the surface, like a swollen and decomposing corpse... She excels in her portrait of a landscape that consumes the merely human – eats it for lunch, as it were – and has slowly, over many generations, created a family in its own image."-Times

"A subtle and sustained exercise in slowly revealing a dense story. Gillies writes magnificently on everything she touches, be it family secrets, Highland light, or the nature of memory."-Sunday Times

"The White Lie is a story of decline, of a crumbling ¬hierarchy taking desperate measures to save face (and the bloodline and the silver) before the hordes sweep them away. Yet, more than that, it is an account of the unreliability of personal history. Is a family story true because it is repeated? Does it matter in the end if the “truth” is revealed, if the lie has been lived? This novel develops ideas of the fragility and fluidity of identity. We all self-mythologise. The strength of this immersive story is that it does not require neat revelations. The White Lie is, even with its detours, a page-turner. It is also, finally, very moving..."-Guardian

"There’s an echo of Virginia Woolf, especially TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, that lifts Gillies’ work above the average family drama. The fact that she also keeps a tight hold of the gossipy strands of her story is a great credit to her powers, too, as well as her ability to keep her readers guessing the truth to the end. This is an unusual, unsettling, often lovely story that plumbs the depths of what family means. It is a fine debut novel."-Scotsman

"A tense, taut tale of rumours and revelations, where festering guilt slowly unravels family secrets. Andrea Gillies’ beautifully-crafted debut combines page-turning aplomb with psychological insight. Ursula Salter claims to have killed her beautiful, angry young cousin Michael on the loch of her family’s Highland estate. The family close ranks, and convince the locals that he’s run away. Over the years, recriminations, shifting family loyalties and new relationships provoke seemingly unanswerable speculations: is Michael dead, who was his father, what was his relationship with Ursula? Gillies is a tantalising storyteller, dropping in clues, vertiginous surprises and unexpected revelations." -Marie Claire

"Set in the Scottish highlands, 13 years since young Michael Salter’s death was covered up by his aristocratic family. As past truths emerge, a web of deception unravels. An intricate, well-observed novel of secrets and guilt."-Woman & Home

"There are many good things in Gillies’s novel. Her feeling for atmosphere is sharp, and the care she takes with drawing the Salters’ land and mansion pays off, creating an almost tangible picture of a raddled, embattled domain, a vivid stage against which events unfold."-Rosemary Goring, Herald

"Gillies writes with a patrician elegance her characters might appreciate, bringing the closed world of the big house to life with cinematic clarity, the guilt-ridden residents as distressed as the threadbare furniture. The book has a pleasantly teasing quality, stealthily circling its central mysteries, challenging the reader to keep up while it flits between eras. A gripping exploration of the stories families tell about themselves, myths sometimes more potent than the truth."-Financial Times

About the Author/作者介绍： Andrea Gillies 從事寫作、文宣工作、編輯Good Beer Guide、旅行與參考書籍、為報紙撰寫專欄。現居住在北蘇格蘭。剛以《Keeper》獲得獎金高達2萬5千英鎊的維康信托獎（the Wellcome Trust Prize），維康信托獎頒發給當年度關於健康或醫學傑出小說或非小說。2011年Broadway出版社將出版美國版。The Wellcome Trust Book Prize: Celebrating medicine in literature: http://www.wellcomebookprize.org/

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