Losing You
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4.1 • 22 Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
THE NAIL-BITING, PULSE-RACING THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR, NICCI FRENCH
'Extraordinary. It carried me with it on the breathless ride' 5***** Reader Review
'Had me totally hooked and kept me guessing until the end' 5***** Reader Review
'Gripping, entertaining . . . A real page-turner' 5***** Reader Review
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The clock is ticking - and the search hasn't even begun . . .
Nina Landry has given up city life for the isolated community of Sandling Island. At night, the wind howls. Sometimes they are cut off by the incoming tide. But for Nina, it is home. It is safe.
But when Nina's teenage daughter Charlie fails to return from a sleepover on the day they're due to go on holiday, the island becomes a different place altogether. A place of secrets and suspicions. Where no one - friends, neighbours, even the police - believes Nina's instinctive fear that her daughter is in terrible danger.
Alone, she undergoes a frantic search for Charlie.
And as day turns to night, she begins to doubt not only whether they'll leave the island for their holiday - but whether they will ever leave it again . . .
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Praise for Nicci French:
'Nicci French's sophisticated, compassionate and gripping crime novels stand head and shoulders above the competition' Sophie Hannah
'French is undeniably at the top of British psychological suspense writing, expert in the unguessable twist, supremely skilled at ratcheting up the tension' Observer
'A nerve-jangling and addictive read' Daily Express
'You live through every nail-biting minute' Guardian
'A brilliantly crafted crime series' Daily Mirror
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A mother fights to keep her composure as she hunts for her missing child in this nuanced, literate thriller from the husband-wife writing team of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French (Killing Me Softly). Shortly before Christmas, Nina Landry, a divorced mother of two living on isolated Sandling Island somewhere in the south of England, is getting ready for a family vacation in Florida that will include her new marine biologist boyfriend. Blindsided by a surprise 40th birthday party, Nina is further disconcerted when her 15-year-old daughter, Charlie, who was supposed to help with the packing, fails to come home from a slumber party. Nina's seamless first-person account of the next 24 hours mines the frustration and feelings of helplessness that come with any investigation slowed by the rigmarole of police work. This engrossing read captures the importance of the often overlooked and underappreciated minutiae of everyday life while commanding a deeply personal reaction in readers.
Customer Reviews
Losing you
Highly recommended - better than all the later Nicci French novels I read , searching for the same buzz as this first one.
I picked up this book by pure chance and began reading . About two hours later I realised it didn’t really have chapters as such , the storyline just kept going and I read about two thirds in one sitting - finishing the next day . Only afterwards did I read that the author was in fact a couple and crucially that they had written the first draft in one sitting too , which was really reflected in the “ can’t put it down until the end” feel about the whole thing. On reflection I felt the main character did a couple of silly things , a sort of “ let’s go into that creepy house what could go wrong “ moments , but bearing in mind the entire narrative is set at a pace that nobody has time to draw breath ( the author/s, the reader or the main character ) they are excusable .
Make sure you have a spare few hours before starting .