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.
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Ebook Edition © March 2017 ISBN: 9780008225360
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Contents
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