WHITE LIES
Book ID/图书代码： 07869914B73416
English Summary/英文概要： Winner of the 2013 Luke Bitmead Bursary
Longlisted for the 2013 Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize
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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 2013年 Luke Bitmead Bursary奖得主
入围2013年Tibor Jones Pageturner奖
我们很相似，我和他，第一次所有悲伤都没有情感。并不是说它没有伤害；我只是还不知道怎么去悼念我恨的人。
当马特同父异母的弟弟亚历克斯死了，他的父亲拒绝记住他最喜爱的儿子已经死了的事实。第一次就够难的了，但是每周都要伤他爸爸的心已经超过马特的承受了。
马特的父亲，彼得害怕他的痴呆症会让他保守了三十五年的秘密泄露。无法区分记忆和幻想，他穿过自己的心灵迷宫寻求答案：亚历克斯在哪里？
面对即将失去父亲，马特暗中寻找关于他家庭的真相。被失败的记忆折磨，彼得意识到不仅是老年痴呆症会威胁他泄露秘密，他的良心也会。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：“《善意的谎言》既是一个坚定不移的对老年痴呆症，年龄和家庭关系的描述，也是一个有趣的对亲人之间的秘密的财富的探寻。”——艾玛•希利，《伊丽莎白失踪了》的作者
’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
About the Author/作者介绍： 乔•加特福特是一位来自布赖顿的作家，她的小说《善良的谎言》是2013年 Luke Bitmead Bursary奖的得主，并入围了2013年的Tibor Jones Pageturner奖。
她做了一份又一份的工作：从书店玩偶猴，马戏团的杂技演员，保姆，昂贵房子的清洁员，婴儿按摩师，夜班酒店服务员，产前瑜伽老师和音乐家。她超短篇小说和短篇故事已经刊登在英国和美国的文学杂志上，包括Litro杂志，Pank杂志和smoke long季刊。
Jo Gatford is a writer from Brighton and her novel ’White Lies’ was the winner of the 2013 Luke Bitmead Bursary and was longlisted for the 2013 Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize.
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.
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