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Do Not Become Alarmed

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Do Not Become Alarmed, written and read by Maile Meloy.

When Liv and Nora decide to take their husbands and children on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities seem infinite. But when they all go ashore in beautiful Central America, a series of minor mishaps lead the families further from the ship's safety.

One minute the children are there, and the next they're gone.

What follows is a heart-racing story told from the perspectives of the adults and the children, as the distraught parents - now turning on one another and blaming themselves - try to recover their children and their shattered lives.

Critics Review

Readers in search of the summer's nail-biting, page-turning, thought-provoking thriller to take to the beach - the hunt is over... chilling and smart
The Times
I swallowed this novel in almost a sitting, eyes on stalks until the early hours. Elegantly and intelligently written... an addictive read
Sunday Times
Here is that perfect combination of a luminous writer and a big, page-turning story. This hugely suspenseful novel will speak to anyone who has ever felt responsible for keeping a loved one safe, whether it was a child, a partner, a parent, or a friend. Meloy's characters-the adults and the children-feel like real, living people I'll never forget
Helen Fielding
This is the book that every reader longs for: smart and thrilling and impossible to put down. Read it once at breakneck speed to find out what happens next, and then read it slowly to marvel at the perfect prose and the masterwork of a plot. It is an alarmingly good novel.
Ann Patchett
Do not start this book after dinner or you will almost certainly be up all night
Kirkus Reviews
I can't remember the last time I gobbled a novel down so fast
Guardian
Ominous, addictive...In crafting this high-stakes page-turner, Meloy excels as a master of suspense
Publisher's Weekly
No character will emerge unscathed as Meloy ratchets up the tension
Mail on Sunday
[Meloy is] a wise and astonishing conjurer of convincing realities
New Yorker
Her characters are drawn sparingly, but they leap off the page
New York Times
Author Maile Meloy
Narrator Maile Meloy
Duration 8 hours and 59 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9780241982662
Format Audiobook
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Genre Fiction: general and literary, Thriller / suspense fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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