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The Vanishing Child
- Author
- Jennifer Harvey
- Narrator
- Susie James
- Publisher
- SAGA Egmont
- Publish Date
- 1 November 2022
- Run Time
- 10 hours 7 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
When Carla returns to her father’s house to care for him in his final days, she feels lost and heartbroken. Here, she develops a friendship with a kindly older woman named CeCe. She understands loss too: Nearly forty years before her only son disappeared without trace, from this same small town.
Sorting through her father’s house, Carla discovers a box of diaries and newspaper clippings from the year CeCe’s son went missing. Even though a child himself, it’s clear the disappearance affected him strongly.
The whole town is haunted by the memory of that summer, and as Carla delves further into her father’s past, she realises he may have known more than he has let on. Perhaps the answers CeCe so desperately seeks have been hidden here in this house all along.
Will Carla be able to discover the truth about what happened to the child who vanished. And will CeCe get the answers she’s been seeking for forty years?
A heart-wrenching and emotionally charged novel about small-town secrets and the price of facing up to the truth.
Fans of Liane Moriarty, Nicole Trope and The Silent Daughter will be gripped from the very first page until the final, heart-stopping twist.
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Details
- Author
- Jennifer Harvey
- Narrator
- Susie James
- Duration
- 10 hours 7 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 November 2022
- ISBN
- 9788728277553
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- SAGA Egmont
- Genre
- Crime & mystery: cosy mystery, Thriller / suspense fiction, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Synopsis
'It’s funny how one innocent decision can ruin your life.'When Carla returns to her father’s house to care for him in his final days, she feels lost and heartbroken. Here, she develops a friendship with a kindly older woman named CeCe. She understands loss too: Nearly forty years before her only son disappeared without trace, from this same small town.Sorting through her father’s house, Carla discovers a box of diaries and newspaper clippings from the year CeCe’s son went missing. Even though a child himself, it’s clear the disappearance affected him strongly. The whole town is haunted by the memory of that summer, and as Carla delves further into her father’s past, she realises he may have known more than he has let on. Perhaps the answers CeCe so desperately seeks have been hidden here in this house all along. Will Carla be able to discover the truth about what happened to the child who vanished. And will CeCe get the answers she’s been seeking for forty years?A heart-wrenching and emotionally charged novel about small-town secrets and the price of facing up to the truth.Fans of Liane Moriarty, Nicole Trope and The Silent Daughter will be gripped from the very first page until the final, heart-stopping twist. -
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