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Then She Was Gone
- 405 pages · about 7 hours
- First published 2017
- 13 editions
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1 About this book
Ellie Mack was fifteen, the youngest of three and loved by everyone who knew her, when she disappeared. Ten years on, her mother, Laurel, is trying to put her life back together; her marriage did not survive the loss. Then she meets Floyd, an unexpectedly charming man, in a café, and to her own surprise lets him into her life. When she meets his young daughter, Poppy, she is startled: the girl looks very like Ellie. Laurel begins to ask again what happened to her daughter. Lisa Jewell's suspense novel was first published in 2017.
- Family life
- Thrillers
- Missing children
- Missing persons
- Daughters
- Secrecy
- Divorced women
- Life change events
2 What to expect
A domestic suspense novel about a mother whose teenage daughter disappeared ten years ago, and who starts a new relationship that stirs up unanswered questions. It is in three sections, moving between past and present and between several narrators. It is quick and emotional, sadder than it is frightening, and it has some disturbing material.
Good for readers who want: domestic suspense, a missing-daughter mystery, and a fast, emotional read.
3 About Lisa Jewell
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Lisa Jewell
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