Nina Landry is supposed to be taking her two children on a Christmas holiday today. But the road away from Sandling Island seems littered with obstacles. Most pressing of all, her fifteen-year-old daughter, Charlie, has yet to return from a night out ...Minute by minute, Nina's unease builds to worry and then panic. Has Charlie run away? Or has something more sinister happened to her? And why will nobody take her disappearance seriously? As a series of half-buried secrets leads Nina from sickening suspicion to deadly certainty, the question becomes less whether she and her daughter will leave the island for Christmas - and more whether they'll ever leave it again.
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French is excellent at building up suspense and elegantly exploiting all our worst fears. --The Daily Mirror
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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 eight 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 and Catch Me When I Fall, all published by Penguin. Find out more about the books and the authors at www.niccifrench.co.uk
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
By Chris Chalk
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
By Sticky
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.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By H. MACDONALD
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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A race against the tide - Mum has to sort this herself.
The longest day imaginable - we whirr through Nina's fortieth birthday at a rate of knots. Daughter Charlie is missing, failing to turn up for a surprise party she herself has... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mrs. Katharine Kirby
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Another brilliant read by nicci french
Another cant put down read from nicci french, had me totally hooked from start to finish and kept me guessing to the end.
Published 3 months ago by sharron hodder
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A must read
I really enjoyed this book, had me reading through the night, I just could not put this down. The way the author described in detail the surroundings and the characters, you could... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Jean
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Nail-biting
Some of the other reviewers' criticisms are actually well-founded, but this book kept me on the edge of my seat throughout. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Ann C
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Extraordinary!
In Losing You, Nicci French has woven a tale bursting with emotional impact. The book reads like a personal experience, such is the depth of detail and intensity of feeling in the... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Stuart Aken
2.0 out of 5 stars
Oh for goodness' sake!
No need to go into the 'plot ' really as so many have done so before, suffice to say that it is dificult to imagine getting annoyed and bored with a woman character whose daughter... Read more
Published 11 months ago by sema4dogz
2.0 out of 5 stars
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 13 months ago by Justhavingfun
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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 21 months ago by I. Byrne
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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 21 months ago by Yellow bellow
2.0 out of 5 stars
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 22 months ago by Cathy
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