And another surprising thing about this man is her 9 years old daughter named Poppy who lives with her, has great resemblance with her deceased daughter. When she meets his teenage daughter, she can’t shake the feeling of how much she reminds her of her beloved Ellie. Thank you to NetGalley, Ariele Friedman, Atria Books and Lisa Jewell for a complimentary copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review. Her multilayered characters are sheer perfection, and even the most astute thriller reader won't see where everything is going until the final threads are unknotted. This is not a cliched version of fiction with a bunch of peripatetic perfunctory characters with a mandatory twist at the end to consider it as a thriller.

I think this is one of those books that I had such high hopes for that I let myself expect too much. She's disarmed by Floyd’s charm, but when she meets his young daughter, Poppy, Laurel is startled by her resemblance to Ellie.Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. Populated with fantastic characters, this was a fascinating and moving story about obsession, loss, and family. I think the author got the information from the Medical study conducted by the University of Rochester. in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter.

If you were the first of your friends to read Girl On The Train, and have read Gone Girl more times than you can remember, then here is your summer read. When her daughter's bones are discovered years later, Laurel feels she can finally move on with her life.I believe in bad vibes and listening to your instincts but why include a stereotypical hippie dippy character to warn Laurel? Skillfully told by several narrators (some of them ghostly), Jewell's gripping novel is an emotionally resonant story of loss, grief, and renewal. How can we understand that our partner is an ideal candidate for providing mutual love or unconditional love?

Thank you so much to NetGalley, Atria Books, and Lisa Jewell for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book. Thank you to Random House UK, Cornerstone Arrow for providing a digital ARC of Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell for review. Her disappearance takes a huge toll on the family, a family that breaks apart as many families in this type of situations often do.As soon as their relationship become serious and she forms true bounding with Poppy, she surprisingly finds out the birth mother Noelle of Poppy who left her is the same woman who has tutored her daughter Ellie. Laurel, Ellie's mother, couldn’t understand how her other children and her husband were able to move on with their lives without knowing what happened to Ellie. After starting this novel I couldn’t quit, her writing is just so compelling, those of the words I would use to describe it! You definitely want to add this to your reading schedule ASAP, especially if you're looking for a read that is so gripping you'll fly right through it. 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.