Then She Was Gone

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Disclaimer: I bloody love Lisa Jewell as a person - she's so nice and generous and supportive to readers and authors alike. But I think you left it a 3 star rating (I can't remember now, but definitely 3 or less), which lowers the overall rating fo That's so lovely to hear! Her marriage fell apart, her other daughter, Hanna became distant and withdrawn from her Mother,her son moved away. It's a very quick read - I read it in a single day - and it goes down smoothly and easily, but it is so easy to predict everything that will happen. Thank you to NetGalley, Atria Books and Lisa Jewell for an ARC to read in exchange for an honest review.

The years went by and although Laurel kept pushing the police to do more…there was only so much they could or would do. The mendacious mercurial nature of some characters in this book will rattle you to the extent of even making you nihilistic. She drifted away from her other two children, Hanna and Jake, and eventually she and her husband, Paul, divorced. I read a Lisa Jewell novel last year and connected immediately with her writing style, tone, and voice.At the end of the book, the author mentions that her agent had an audacious and shocking idea for Then She Was Gone which the author championed. You know, how you get to forty and you suddenly stop giving a sh** about all the stupid things you worried about your whole life. But something isn’t quite right about Floyd, especially his relationship with his nine-year-old daughter, Polly. Every morning was a flurry of mascara and butterflies, quickening pulse as she neared the school gates, blooming joy as her eyes found him. More than a whiff of The Lovely Bones wafts through this haunting domestic noir from bestseller Jewell…Skillfully told by several narrators, Jewell’s gripping novel is an emotionally resonant story of loss, grief, and renewal.

If the author can find just the right combination of these things, then I will be right there ready to throw more stars their way.Quickly paced yet delicately nuanced, this novel is sure to appeal to fans of Big Little Lies and The Woman in Cabin 10. So many questions without answers can wear a person down, can leave a hole, and can prevent a person from fully moving on with one's life. Since then she has written another twenty novels, most recently a number of dark psychological thrillers, including The Girls, Then She Was Gone, The Family Upstairs and The Night She Disappeared.

It is hard to read the despair and feelings of inadequacies that the family members encounter and at one point it was a little hard for me to continue. The book was so good that I lost track of time and read so quickly, everything just disappeared, but I was absolutely connected and attached to every part of the story and characters. How soon did you guess what really happened to Ellie, and if you did, did it affect your enjoyment of the book?

Upon finishing one chapter it was easy to read the next and then just one more chapter and before I knew it I was finished! This book was simply perfect – easy to fall into, hard to escape, and with so much to figure out you barely wanted to leave anyway.

They are ordinary people with ordinary worries who have ordinary awful things happen, and who react like I imagine that I, or any of my friends, would react should a child of mine go missing. How the author balances both stories and interweaves them into an amazingly realistic and beautiful conclusion can only be described in a word as brilliant. Even though unconditional love is one of the ideal forms of love, it will be practical only with ideal individuals.As you read, did you find yourself blaming characters for the unforeseen consequences of the choices they made? But, when Laurel finally gets to meet Poppy, she is unnerved by the uncanny resemblance to her daughter, Ellie. Most of her plots are traditional tales that have been told before in some form, but the difference is that she knows how to take something that could be predictable and put her own spin on it.