Skillfully told by several narrators (some of them ghostly), Jewell’s gripping novel transcends its plot improbabilities to connect with an emotionally resonant story of loss, grief, and renewal. But then unsettling coincidences start to emerge, most notably Laurel’s discovery that Floyd’s former partner, Noelle Donnelly, who he claims vanished five years earlier after dumping Poppy with him, was Ellie’s math tutor. After a shocking development in the cold case jolts Laurel from her lonely limbo, Laurel stuns herself by agreeing to dinner with a man she meets in a café, genial author Floyd Dunn, and quickly falls into a relationship with him and the younger of his daughters, precocious nine-year-old Poppy-who reminds Laurel eerily in so many ways of Ellie. As the reader, you think you have it all figured out, and then she throws you a curveball. Most profoundly affected is her now-divorced mother, Laurel. I absolutely love how Lisa Jewell writes thrillers. The disappearance of beautiful, brainy 15-year-old Ellie Mack in May 2005 from her north London neighborhood takes a terrible toll on her parents and siblings, even a decade later. The police looked at all the angles but finally had to conclude the likely scenario was that she. More than a whiff of The Lovely Bones wafts through this haunting domestic noir from bestseller Jewell ( I Found You). Ellie was Laurel’s golden girl, her youngest, the 15-year-old with the stunning smile and beautiful hair, a new boyfriend who was just as golden as she, a bright future ahead.
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