Losing You

Description

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, 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.

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 fourteen other bestselling novels by Nicci French, all published by Penguin. Blue Monday was the first thrilling instalment in the Frieda Klein series, followed by Tuesday's Gone, Waiting for Wednesday, Thursday's Child and Friday on My Mind.

"Lose yourself in this smart nail-biter of a tale about a mother's desperate search for her missing teenage daughter."-"People "magazine "A seamless first-person account...This engrossing read captures the importance of the often overlooked and underappreciated minutiae of everyday life while commanding a deeply personal reaction in readers."-"Publishers Weekly "(starred review) "What gives "Losing You" its chief distinction...is its unusually emotive color and its flinty protagonist.... Nina is the parent we'd all like to be under duress, and I find I've become nearly as protective of her as she is of her daughter."-Salon.com "The pace and tension accelerate as the identity of Charlie's abductor remains deliciously uncertain. This is a quick, enjoyable read."-"Library Journal" "[French] renders psychological chillers that manage to generate great susp "Lose yourself in this smart nail-biter of a tale about a mother's desperate search for her missing teenage daughter."--"People "magazine"A seamless first-person account...This engrossing read captures the importance of the often overlooked and underappreciated minutiae of everyday life while commanding a deeply personal reaction in readers."--"Publishers Weekly "(starred review) "What gives "Losing You" its chief distinction...is its unusually emotive color and its flinty protagonist.... Nina is the parent we'd all like to be under duress, and I find I've become nearly as protective of her as she is of her daughter."--Salon.com "The pace and tension accelerate as the identity of Charlie's abductor remains deliciously uncertain. This is a quick, enjoyable read."--"Library Journal" "[French] renders psychological chillers that manage to generate great suspense... This latest offering is sure to keep readers furiously flipping pages through the night."--"Booklist" "The novel's greatest strength is its cool-eyed portrait of an English village"--"The Washington Post" "Nicci French know[s] exactly how to maintain the tension...You live through every nail-biting minute."--"The Guardian" "The heart pounds from the first page...This is a book that keeps you reading into the small hours." --"The Observer" (UK) Praise for Nicci French "Nicci French . . . know[s] exactly how to maintain the tension . . . You live through every nail-biting minute." --"The Guardian" (UK) on "Losing You" "They have mastered suspense . . . The heart pounds from the first page . . . This is a book that keeps you reading into the small hours." --"The Observer" (UK) on "Losing You" "Nicci French has become synonymous with suspense." --"New York Daily News" on "Catch Me When I Fall" "Nicci French is a specialist in the kind of evil that burrows from within." --"The New York Times Book Review" on "Secret Smile" "Suspenseful from the start and ending with a brilliant twist." --"People," "Page-turner of the Week," on "The Red Room" "Genuine chills and page-turning suspense." --"Entertainment Weekly" on "Land of the Living"