Then She Was Gone: From the number one bestselling author of The Family Upstairs

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I was always several chapters ahead of the characters and it sapped a lot of tension out of the story. I became invested in the feelings of Eliie’s mother, and as a mother of four daughters, I wanted so badly for things to somehow turn out that this poor woman didn’t have to continue without knowing what happened to her missing beautiful, intelligent, golden girl! The charitable business kidnaps fatherless children to bring them out of the slum and possible prostitution, to send them on to better families like this one in England, for a better future, but while she is detained waiting for transport the little girl is entrusted with a prostitute for relieving her of her mother, a real injecting drug addict, which doesn't quite fit into the charity scheme. There is her mother and her mother is standing in the pool of light from Floyd’s study and her mother is saying; Ellie, Ellie, is that you? maybe i wont be playing the whole ‘predict what happens based on the synopsis only’ game because it turns out i only got 1 out of 4 guesses right and its not a good look for my ego.

Joshua shows Laurel the basement, where there's a sofa, tv and a bunch of hamster cages where they found a bunch of dead hamsters. Laurel is immediately taken with Floyd's youngest daughter, Poppy, who is beautiful and wise beyond her years, truly an old soul. But then, in the closing pages of the new version of the book, as I wrote the last page of the last chapter I realised there was still a chance for Ellie to breathe, to shine, to exist just one last time. Did she really run away from home, as the police have long suspected, or was there a more sinister reason for her disappearance? Her disappearance takes a huge toll on the family, a family that breaks apart as many families in this type of situations often do.She seeks forgiveness from her ex-husband, Paul, shares happy moments with her elderly mother, and finds herself taking an interest in daily routines such as cooking and getting dressed up.

Also, I really enjoyed how she leaves us with little snippets of clues along the way for us readers to pick up on right away and start questioning and guessing how they fit into the story.Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. The realness of the emotions of all of the characters was so realistic and insightful it truly felt like I was experiencing the revealing of the mystery of what happened to her daughter with Laurel. She was supposed to move and go live with them along with Poppy at one point, but it looks like she dropped off the baby with Floyd and disappeared instead. Before too long she’s staying the night at this house and being introduced to his nine year old daughter.

I wanted to unlock the doors of my car, reach across her, open her door and softly say, ‘go on then. Then ten years after her daughter's disappearance, she goes into a bakery after getting her hair cut, and meets a man named Floyd.And even though I had an inkling about where this was going, it didn't diminish my pleasure in this read at all. As Laurel gets to know the entire family, she begins to learn about coincidences, there is a certain individual who ties both of their lives together.

Laurel meets Floyd Dunn, and for the first time since Ellie’s disappearance, feels a sense of happiness and hope. Indeed, the novel does double duty as a survival manual, packed full of good advice—for instance, try not to get wounded, for “injury turns you from a giver to a taker. After 10 years have passed, the family finally gets some answers--what they don’t realize is how close they were to knowing the truth all along. I intended to spend 90 minutes reading on a weekend afternoon to have a relaxing break from some outside chores.She meets a handsome man, Floyd Dunn, in a neighborhood cafe, and for the first time in 10 years, she realizes she can live for herself. A road much like mine, lined with semi-detached Victorian villas with gabled roofs, mostly gentrified. Laurel's voice is so realististic, raw, and sympathetic, she nearly had me believing she was a real person and that this was a true story. also, i was super into the version of the story i had imagined before reading this and what actually happened feels… disappointing? Dark and unsettling, this novel’s end arrives abruptly even as readers are still moving at a breakneck speed.