It’s GIVEAWAY Time Over on my Instagram page @genthebookworm!
I have been waiting for months and it is finally almost here! Diane Chamberlain’s 2020 fiction release, Big Lies in a Small Town will be published next week!! šā£
Book Summary of Big Lies in a Small Town:
North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher’s life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women’s Correctional Center. Her dream of a career in art is put on holdāuntil a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will see her released immediately. Her assignment: restore an old post office mural in a sleepy southern town. Morgan knows nothing about art restoration, but desperate to leave prison, she accepts. What she finds under the layers of grime is a painting that tells the story of madness, violence, and a conspiracy of small-town secrets.
North Carolina, 1940: Anna Dale, an artist from New Jersey, wins a national contest to paint a mural for the post office in Edenton, North Carolina. Alone in the world and desperate for work, she accepts. But what she doesn’t expect is to find herself immersed in a town where prejudices run deep, where people are hiding secrets behind closed doors, and where the price of being different might just end in murder.
What happened to Anna Dale? Are the clues hidden in the decrepit mural? Can Morgan overcome her own demons to discover what exists beneath the layers of lies?
My Thoughts on Diane Chamberlain’s Newest Release!
ā£Diane Chamberlain is one of my very favorite authors and I always highly anticipate her new book publications. Her 2018 release, The Dream Daughter, ranks as one of my favorite books ever and was a tough act to follow.ā£
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Chamberlain is gifted at writing engaging and compelling novels that tackle tough topics with such awareness of others. Her topics are thought-provoking and always cause great self-reflection for myself as the reader.ā£
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Chamberlainās vividly detailed plotlines and multifaceted characters bring you inside the story and you can feel the emotions of the characters she shares. In Big Lies in a Small Town, Chamberlain shares a dual narrative as well as a past and present timeline with ease.ā£
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She introduces us to the worlds of Morgan Christopher and Anna Dale and the events who made and changed them. I donāt know how she does it, but I can connect personally with every one of her characters, even if our lives and worlds are so different. ā£
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There are many āheavierā themes including alcoholism, sexual assault, racial issues of the 1940s, and many family secrets which she handles both sensitively and eloquently.ā£
Not only does she make you feel but she makes you think when reading her novels. I really enjoyed reading this one but I kept thinking about it long after I was finished which is the sign of a great book for me.ā£
You can read my full review of Big Lies in a Small Town in my blog post HERE.
Big Lies in a Small Town Book Giveaway With St. Martin’s Press!
Today, I am partnering with Saint Martin’s Press to offer this advanced readers copy of Big Lies in a Small Town with one of YOU!
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*This contest closes āŖthis Sunday 1/12/20 at 8 pmā¬ā¬ ESTā¬ā¬ā¬. U.S. entries only due to shipping. Good luck!
