Whistle in the Dark: From the bestselling author of Elizabeth is Missing - Softcover

Healey, Emma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241327652 ISBN 13: 9780241327654

Publisher: Penguin, 2019

Synopsis

Jen has finally got her daughter home.
But why does fifteen-year-old Lana still feel lost?

When Lana goes missing for four desperate days and returns refusing to speak of what happened, Jen fears the very worst. She thinks she's failed as a mother, that her daughter is beyond reach and that she must do something - anything - to bring her back.

The family returns to London where everyone but Jen seems happy to carry on as normal. Jen's husband Hugh thinks she's going crazy - and their eldest daughter Meg is tired of Lana getting all the attention. But Jen knows Lana has changed, and can't understand why.

Does the answer lie in those four missing days?
And how can Jen find out?

'As gripping as Elizabeth is Missing' Elle

'Utterly compelling' Rosamund Lupton

'[A] satisfying, cathartic mystery' Jenny Colgan

'A compelling modern family drama with witty and wonderful characters. Utter bliss' Nina Stibbe, bestselling author of Love, Nina

'Intriguing and entertaining' Observer

About this title

Review:

Courageous...intriguing...entertaining (Observer)

As gripping as its predecessor (Elle)

A compelling modern family drama with witty and wonderful characters. Utter bliss. (Nina Stibbe)

Gripping, deeply affecting (Irish Times)

A beautiful exploration of mental health and love (Stylist)

Utterly compelling and insightful, I was drawn into this family in crisis from the first chapter of this unflinchingly honest and beautifully written novel (Rosamund Lupton, bestselling author of 'Sister')

I adored the forensic detail of Healey's writing and the wry, sharp take on millenial family life (Daily Mail)

A fast-paced, gripping read (Closer)

Oozing with tension and written with captivating brilliance (Heat)

At once an absorbing thriller and a beautifully observed study of the relationship between mother and teenage daughter (Refinery29)

About the Author:

Emma Healey, a former bookseller, grew up in London where she went to art college and completed her first degree in bookbinding. She then worked for two libraries, two bookshops, two art galleries and two universities, and was busily pursuing a career in the art world before writing overtook everything. She moved to Norwich in 2010 to study for the MA in Creative Writing at UEA and never moved back again. Elizabeth is Missing, her first novel, was a Sunday Times Bestseller, won the Costa First Novel Award 2014 and was shortlisted for the National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0241327652
• ISBN 13: 9780241327654
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336