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Nina Landry has given up city life for the isolated community of Sandling Island, lying off the bleak east coast of England. At night the wind howls. Sometimes they are cut off by the incoming tide. For Nina though 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 or 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 just whether they'll leave the island for their holiday--but whether they will ever leave it again.
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Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of journalists Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. The couple are married and live in Suffolk. There are nine other bestselling novels by Nicci French: The Memory Game, The Safe House, Killing Me Softly, Beneath the Skin, The Red Room, Land of the Living, Secret Smile, Catch Me When I Fall and Until it's Over (hardback March 08).
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
It must be every parents nightmare - just before you are about to leave for your much anticipated holiday your 15 year old daughter goes missing. The emotions going from mild annoyance to baited concern right through to out right terror. This is what Nina Landry must go through as her daughter Charlie is missing...
The premise is interesting and the setting (a small island on the Thames Estuary) has a really repressive feel for Nina and I love the way this is written. You can feel oppressive nature of the environment as the major players around the location pull in around one and other with Nina still feeling as somewhat the outsider.
Nina has to force the local police force to move forward with the investigation and helpful neighbours who harbour their own issues with Nina are not helping. Nina however is a mother with the bit between her teeth and knows this is a race - but will she win?
I enjoyed the beginning and middle of the books, the character development was up to Nicci French's high standards and there was a smattering of tension to fill the pages but I did find the killer instinct to be somewhat lacking and I thought this let the book down. We have come to expect page turning shockers from the author and the change of direction is as welcome as it is unexpected but I feel this style of book is going to take some refinement. It is probably a harsh 3 stars but given the usually excellent standard I can't help but compare it to its predecessors.
The premise is interesting and the setting (a small island on the Thames Estuary) has a really repressive feel for Nina and I love the way this is written. You can feel oppressive nature of the environment as the major players around the location pull in around one and other with Nina still feeling as somewhat the outsider.
Nina has to force the local police force to move forward with the investigation and helpful neighbours who harbour their own issues with Nina are not helping. Nina however is a mother with the bit between her teeth and knows this is a race - but will she win?
I enjoyed the beginning and middle of the books, the character development was up to Nicci French's high standards and there was a smattering of tension to fill the pages but I did find the killer instinct to be somewhat lacking and I thought this let the book down. We have come to expect page turning shockers from the author and the change of direction is as welcome as it is unexpected but I feel this style of book is going to take some refinement. It is probably a harsh 3 stars but given the usually excellent standard I can't help but compare it to its predecessors.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Like the other reviewers I think the end felt a bit hurried and not fully explained. However, you can't deny that this is a real page turner in the true sense of the word. The action starts at 10.30 one morning and ends at 6pm that evening which was about as long as it took me to read the book. There are no chapters so all the while the story is gathering pace and I really felt the panic experienced by Nina, our narrator. It is a minute by minute account of the day that Nina's daughter disappears and I felt her distress every second along the way. I would definitely recommend this book.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book started off very well, with a very readable style and intriguing plot. However, as other reviewers have said, as it progressed, the whole thing started to get more unbelieveable. Only the heroine seemed to feel that anything was wrong when her daughter failed to appear, and this gave the plot a bit of an unrealistic feeling.
However, with a decent ending, this would not have mattered so much, and it would have still have been a good book. The real fault with this book was there was no explanation as to the events which had taken place, and why things been done. I was hoping for an explanation; or even better still, a last minute twist right up until the final page. Unfortunately, neither came.
However, with a decent ending, this would not have mattered so much, and it would have still have been a good book. The real fault with this book was there was no explanation as to the events which had taken place, and why things been done. I was hoping for an explanation; or even better still, a last minute twist right up until the final page. Unfortunately, neither came.
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Not their best
I am a massive Nicci French fan but I was sorely disappointed with this offering. The book is still quite gripping and the plot has the potential to be exicting but everything... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Justhavingfun
great read
This is the first book I have read by Nicci French and it definately won't be the last! I love page turners, and a missing child is every parents worst nightmare, I completely... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Catherine Byrne
Painfully real
I have just re-read this book and was very impressed by it. A friend went to Mersea Island a few months back and in my mind's eye I set the action there - a fascinating but subtle... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Yellow bellow
frustrating
Like someone else, I was 'speed reading' the book after about the first third, just to find out what happened. (There was too much slow detail in the middle section). Read more
Published 10 months ago by Cathy
It needs chapters
I have to agree that the lack of chapters in this book is quite strange, but it didn't really stop me from enjoying the story. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Lincs Reader
Fun but not fantastic
This book starts at 10.30am and ends at 6pm the same day. Inbetween the pages and the hours, a teenage girl, Charlie, goes missing on her paper-round just hours before she and her... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Boof
Didn't enjoy it
Didn't enjoy this book at all and only finished reading it because I always try to finish whatever I start reading. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Onway
Tiresome
This is the fourth book by these authors that I've read, and it's going to be my last. Once again we have a main character who behaves in a ridiculous manner and a plot point... Read more
Published on 6 Sep 2009 by Helena
Losing You
Fast pace. Keeps you turning the pages and builds up the suspense. Great ending.
Published on 6 April 2009 by P. Hawkes
Losing Me...
Nicci French (the partnership) have written some incredibly good books (Killing me softly in particular). It was with a fair amount of anticipation that I started Losing You. Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2009 by Great Scot
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