Tackling themes of class, race and social expectation with a wicked wit and warm heart, Would I Lie to You? finds a wife and mother prepared to do almost anything to preserve the lifestyle she has painstakingly built up.
She could lose the perfect life... if she tells the truth.
At the school gates in Wimbledon Village, Faiza fits in. It took a few years and a brand new wardrobe, but now the snobbish mothers who mistook her for the nanny treat her as one of their own.
But the perfect life costs money. When her husband Tom loses his job, Faiza realises she'll have to reveal her biggest secret: she's spent her family's entire life savings.
Unless she doesn't...
It only takes a second to lie to Tom. Now Faiza has six weeks to find £75,000 or risk losing the family she has worked so hard to protect.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781800245686
Number of pages: 448
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
An uplifting and joyous read... A refreshing new voice in commercial fiction' - Cosmopolitan
Warm, intelligent [...] and keeps up the tension right till the end - Sophie Kinsella
A fresh take on domestic dynamics and moral dilemma... Great for book clubs - Clare Mackintosh
Convincing and compelling - Stacey Halls
A page-turner hinging on financial meltdown - Woman & Home
An engaging, entertaining, smart, and ultimately feel-good novel with huge emotional integrity and balance - LoveReading
Compelling and heartwarming - Happiful Magazine
A brilliant read - Bella Magazine
This book acknowledges moral dilemmas with wit and warmth - Woman's Weekly
This warm-hearted, funny debut is an indulgent page-turner... A gripping, unexpected thriller - Adele Parks, The Sun
[A] dazzling debut - My Weekly
This is warm and genuinely funny, opening as Faiza tries to get out of a 'Botox party' she can't afford, and following her desperate attempts to keep her spending secret. Loved it - The Bookseller
A warm, insightful tale of family, friendship and fitting in - People's Friend
I just loved this... I read this almost in one sitting and I absolutely adored it - Annabel & Grace
Ali-Afzal's witty, sharp, and very funny book will have you cheering throughout - Penguin Random House Blog
I read this book courtesy of NetGalley. A slightly different book but essentially about 'keeping up appearances' with a web of lies and deceit plus spending money without a thought of the possible... More
Faiza has everything she ever wanted, until she opens a bank statement and realises how much she has spent from the emergency savings account. In order to make up the money that has gone missing Faiza relies on her... More
Fazia is a British Pakistani married to a white man with their mixed race children.
They have an indulgent life, with Tom earning enough money to keep them very comfortably well off with two children in private...
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