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Whistle in the Dark

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Whistle in the Dark by Emma Healey, read by Julia Deakin and Laura Aikman.

In the award-winning Elizabeth is Missing debut novelist Emma Healey explored grandmother Maud's attempt to solve a 70-year-old mystery as she succumbed to dementia.

Now, in her dazzling follow-up Whistle in the Dark, we meet Jen, mother to 15-year-old Lana - who has just been found after going missing for four desperate days. Lana can't talk about the missing days. As her daughter's life falls apart, Jen turns detective to discover what happened . . .

How do you rescue someone who has already been found?

Jen's fifteen-year-old daughter goes missing for four agonizing days. When Lana is found, unharmed, in the middle of the desolate countryside, everyone thinks the worst is over. But Lana refuses to tell anyone what happened, and the police think the case is closed. The once-happy, loving family returns to London, where things start to fall apart. Lana begins acting strangely: refusing to go to school, and sleeping with the light on.
With her daughter increasingly becoming a stranger, Jen is sure the answer lies in those four missing days. But will Lana ever reveal what happened?

'A psychological thriller that meshes the homely with the Gothic' Literary Review

'Oozing with tension and written with captivating brilliance' Heat

'As gripping as its predecessor' Elle

'Gripping, deeply affecting' Irish Times

Critics Review

Every bit as compelling as the frenzied hype suggests. A gripping detective yarn and a haunting depiction of mental illness
Observer on 'Elizabeth is Missing'
Will stir and shake you
Emma Donoghue, author of Room on 'Elizabeth is Missing'
A dark and riveting psychological thriller
Stylist on 'Elizabeth is Missing'
Very good indeed
Jojo Moyes on 'Elizabeth is Missing'
Author Emma Healey
Narrator Julia Deakin, Laura Aikman
Duration 10 hours and 44 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9780241982785
Format Audiobook
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Genre Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age
Availability AU, GB, IE

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