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SHE WAS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. AND NOW SHE'S MISSING.
Unputdownable psychological suspense from an exciting new talent, perfect for fans of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR and Claire Mackintosh's I LET YOU GO.
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NOW YOU SEE HER
She’s playing at the school fete with your children. You pull out your phone, scroll through Facebook, and look up again.
NOW YOU DON'T
NOW YOU SEE HER
She’s playing at the school fete with your children. You pull out your phone, scroll through Facebook, and look up again.
NOW YOU DON'T
Charlotte is looking after her best friend’s daughter the day she disappears. She thought the little girl was playing with her own children. She swears she only took her eyes off them for a second.
Now, Charlotte must do the unthinkable, tell her best friend Harriet that her only child is missing. The child she was meant to be watching.
Devastated, Harriet can no longer bear to see Charlotte. No one could expect her to trust her friend again.
Only now she needs to. Because two weeks later Harriet and Charlotte are both being questioned separately by the police. And secrets are about to surface.
Someone is hiding the truth about what really happened to Alice
Review
This book is billed as "unputdownable" and for the first hundred pages or so I am afraid I did not agree. It was ok - there was a story to be told and tragic as it was I just happy to read along when I had time.
Then all that changed! A simple sentence and I actually exclaimed out loud "wow!". I began to recalculate what I had read so far and realised that the author had done something very clever, she had led me to believe what I wanted to believe whilst reading the book. What followed was such a gripping story that I read the rest of the book in one sitting. I just had to know what was going to happen.
With up to date references to social media and how it can alter perception about those suspected, those missing, the parents, in fact everyone involved in the case this novel is also very thought provoking and chilling.
The story is told in the present with it flipping back and forth to the past. Clear labelling ensures you know where you are in the story and I didn't find that aspect at all confusing or annoying, as it can sometimes be in a book.
The only thing left to say is that I am giving this book 5 out of 5 very well deserved stars. But you dear reader have to wait a little longer to read it and for that I am sorry - but read it you must.
My thanks to Netgalley and Penguin Random House UK for an advance copy of the book for review.
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