One of the Top 10 books in the Lovereading Readers’ Choice Book of the Year 2014.
One of our Books of the Year 2014.
Winner of the International Author of the of the Year at the Specsavers National Book Awards 2014.
The effects on a family of a young sister who disappears. It is a good third of the way through the book before you find out what it’s all about and I do hope you don’t know when you start for it will reduce the shock element, suffice to say that if you don’t see it coming then it really does hit you in the stomach. After the unexpected revelation the tale becomes very sad, very powerful and very thought-provoking. Most impressive and highly recommended.
'Wise, provocative and wildly endearing' Guardian
'Readably juicy and surreptitiously smart' Barbara Kingsolver
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER
A Meghan Markle Book Recommendation
Rosemary doesn't talk much, and about certain things she's silent. She had a sister, Fern, her whirlwind other half, who vanished from her life in circumstances she wishes she could forget. And it's been ten years since she last saw her beloved older brother Lowell.
Now at college, Rosemary starts to see she can't go forward without going back to the time when aged five, she was sent away from home to her grandparents and returned to find Fern gone.
It was Rosemary's parents who began all of the trouble - isn't it always? But, dear reader, exactly how they did it is a twist you'll have to discover for yourself.
