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.
Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we're not going to tell you too much either: you'll have to find out for yourselves. Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone - vanished from her life. There's something unique about Rosemary's sister, Fern. So now she's telling her story: full of hilarious asides and brilliantly spiky lines, it's a looping narrative that begins towards the end, and then goes back to the beginning. Twice.
