Not only was it predictable, but there were no particularly riveting twists, no big defining moments and, while the characters are reasonable believable, there is something not quite convincing about many of them. Unfortunately, I have to say this book wasn’t for me. It is a dark and unsettling story – at one point I wasn’t sure if I was going to keep going.īut I did, and the ending was very neat and tidy, albeit a little bit predictable. It builds tension but it makes it difficult to read at times. The writing is complex – it toggles between many points of view (not so unusual), with each storyteller conveying their own version of events – but it also alternates between first and third person (which is a little jarring).
Then She Was Gone is a psychological thriller with a heavy plot told in fast-paced narration, coming in short punchy chapters. When Laurel discovers an odd connection between Poppy’s mother and Ellie things begin to unravel. Laurel begins to stay over, and then she meets poppy, Floyd’s nine year old daughter – pretty, precocious and … the splitting image of Ellie when she was that age. I guess you can begin to see where this is heading. When a charming and charismatic stranger (Floyd Dunn) walks into a café, Laurel is swept off her feet. She is now divorced from her husband Jake and has drifted apart from her other children.
It is ten years later, and Laurel has never given up hope of finding her daughter. In the second part of the book, the focus shifts to Ellie’s mum, Laurel. Noelle proceeds to stalk Floyd and after a few “coincidental” meetings they strike up a relationship. When she meets Floyd Dunn at a book signing, they realise that they live near each other. She purchases a book, ‘Bad at Maths’ written by Floyd Dunn and becomes obsessed with the author. She studies to be a teacher but realises she won’t be able to cut it so she starts to tutor instead. She is from Ireland, estranged from her family and smart, although she has never parlayed those smarts into a lucrative career. It turns out Noelle has baggage – loads of it. This puts Ellie off and she has her Mum fire Noelle.
Then Noelle starts asking strange questions, giving gifts, overstepping her bounds. We also meet Noelle, a bit odd, but to Ellie all adults are a little odd. Then She Was Gone is a story is told in three parts. She headed to the library one day to study.Īnd then, in the blink of an eye … she was gone
She was her mum’s, Laurel’s, youngest and her favourite … and her siblings Jake and Hanna knew it.Įllie wanted to ace her maths exam and begged her mum for a tutor. She was smart, pretty, popular, and had a fantastic boyfriend, Theo.
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