Forget Me Not
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
Don't miss the gripping new thriller from the author of A FLICKER IN THE DARK about a woman searching for answers to her sister's disappearance decades ago
'Absolutely riveting. Simmering tension and genuine shocks make Forget Me Not a thriller I’ll remember for a long, long time' RILEY SAGER
'Shocking and totally twisted. Totally unique, I've never read anything like it' MARY KUBICA
'Could not put it down. A perfect thriller for summer reading' SAMANTHA DOWNING
“I have a sister. But we haven’t spoken in years”
That’s what I told everyone. I lied.
My sister’s been missing for 22 years, her body never found.
Her disappearance has haunted me ever since.
After quitting her job at as a NYC journalist, Claire Campbell heads home to South Carolina, planning to finally face her past.
But unable to face her mother’s melancholy, and the eerie stillness of her childhood home, she seeks refuge at Galloway Farm. In exchange for free room and board she agrees to work the summer harvest.
But as she gets to know the farm's other inhabitants – an illusive elderly couple and a young man named Liam – Claire begins to realise that she isn’t the only one with a mysterious past. And Galloway Farm has secrets of its own
About the author
Stacy Willingham is the author of the international bestseller A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things.
Before turning to fiction, she was a copywriter and brand strategist for various marketing agencies. She earned her BA in magazine journalism from the University of Georgia and MFA in writing from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her work is currently being translated in over 30 languages.
She lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with her husband, Britt, and Labradoodle, Mako, where she is already working on her next novel.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Willingham's suffocating latest Southern thriller (after Only If You're Lucky) thrusts disillusioned New York City journalist Claire Campbell back into the rural South Carolina environs she'd hoped to flee forever. When Claire's father calls to tell her that her mother has been in an accident, she reluctantly returns to her hometown of Claxton, S.C., having just quit her job and tired of her latest friend-with-benefits. Still grieving her older sister Natalie's disappearance 22 years earlier, Claire can't bear to stay at home, so she takes lodging on a spooky nearby island and finds a job picking grapes for elderly local Mitchell and his spacey wife, Marcia. Finding Marcia's teenage diary ignites Claire's curiosity about her new employers, and soon, she's mired in Dixie-fiction clichés, dealing with copperheads and cups of suspicious tea as she notices that Marcia's youthful obsession with an older man mirrors the long-missing Natalie's. Willingham tries to enliven the flat proceedings with gothic accouterments and long-festering family secrets, but none of it takes. The result is a pedestrian tale of angst and obsession that will leave overheated readers yearning for a blast of convincing realism.
