Looking at it backward it was obvious all along. If she could rewind the timeline, untwist it and roll it back the other way like a ball of wool, she’d see the knots in the yarn, the warning signs. The setting is present day London, but anyone who has ever read the newspaper knows this scenario is not unique to Britain.įrom the beguiling prologue, Jewell’s poignant, pithy dialogue catches the reader’s attention. Using realistic characters and haunting prose, she enmeshes the reader in the lives of the troubled Mack family members. With her latest novel, Then She Was Gone, this storyteller embellishes on family dynamics after a tragedy. Life can change in the blink of an eye and no one is better at telling just how it can happen than bestselling author Lisa Jewell. Her loving mother, Laurel Mack, cannot believe it. When golden girl Ellie Mack disappears before her school exams, the police think she has run away. A child is missing with no clues, no leads and no reason. Jewell lives in London with her husband and their two daughters. Her novels have sold more than two million copies across the English-speaking world and her work has been translated into sixteen languages so far. Lisa Jewell is the internationally bestselling author of 18 novels, including the New York Times bestsellers I Found You, The Girls in the Garden and The House We Grew Up In.
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