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Blog Tour: Little White Lies by Katie Dale

Hey everyone! Sorry I've not been posting much, again... Anyway, today I've got another awesome guest post from Katie Dale to celebrate her new book, Little White Lies ! __________ LITTLE WHITE LIES Gorgeous Christian is a mystery. Why does he dye his hair, clam up whenever Lou asks about his past, and have no family photos? But when Christian’s secret is publicly revealed, Lou finds herself in terrible danger – and keeping secrets of her own… As lie follows lie, nothing is as it seems, and soon Lou finds herself ensnared in a web of deceit, her loyalties torn, her emotions in tatters as she faces a heart-wrenching dilemma: should she shatter the lives of those she holds dearest, or betray the guy who, against all odds, she's fallen in love with? LITTLE WHITE LIES by Katie Dale Published by Simon & Schuster UK August 2013 Website: katiedaleuk.blogspot.com Twitter: @katiedaleuk __________ A lot of things that have happened in my life have somehow ma...

Blog Tour: Someone Else's Life by Katie Dale - Fact or Fiction Guest Post!

Hey everyone, welcome to my stop on the Someone Else's Life  blog tour! I have for you today an awesome guest blog from the author, Katie Dale - A Fact or Fiction post! __________ A lot of things that have happened in my life have somehow made their way into my debut novel, Someone Else's Life. But can you guess which ones... ? Which of these statements do you think are FACTS and which are pure FICTION... ? Answers below - no peeking! 1) Just like Rosie in Someone Else’s Life , my mum made me a gingerbread house birthday cake when I was little. 2) The incident where Trudie blew up a pressure cooker and had to scrape mashed potato off the ceiling actually happened to me! 3) Just like Rosie, I used to live in Bramberley, in Sussex. 4) Just like Kitty, I trained as an actress and played Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 5) There really is a Woody’s Plaice in Provincetown, New England. 6) Holly Woods in Someone Else’s Life is named after my daughter....

Book Review: Someone Else's Life by Katie Dale

Title:  Someone Else's Life  Author:  Katie Dale Series:  Standalone Pages:  478 Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Date of Publication:  2nd February 2012 Source:  Publisher* Synopsis from Goodreads: When seventeen-year-old Rosie’s mother, Trudie, dies from Huntington’s Disease, her pain is intensified by the knowledge that she has a fifty-per-cent chance of inheriting the crippling disease herself. Only when she tells her mum’s best friend, ‘Aunt Sarah’ that she is going to test for the disease does Sarah, a midwife, reveal that Trudie was not her biological mother after all... Devastated, Rosie decides to trace her real mother, hitching along on her ex-boyfriend’s GAP year to follow her to Los Angeles. But all does not go to plan, and as Rosie discovers yet more of her family's deeply-buried secrets and lies, she is left with an agonising decision of her own - one which will be the most heart-breaking and far-reaching of all... My ...