It is about transformation, learning to let go of the past and mending relationships. T to ever get over such a loss? How does one start to put the pieces back together and heal? This book delves into all of these questions and more. What happened that fateful day when Ellie never returned? Is it possible for a paren. After 10 years of grief, Laurel has pretty much lost everything - her marriage, her home, a quality relationship with her two surviving kids - and lives an empty shell of a life until she meets Floyd and his daughter Poppy. Her daughter was 15 years old and the youngest of 3 children when she left one day to study at the library and never came home.
We meet Laurel, a woman who has been broken and hollowed out from the sudden loss of her daughter 10 years ago. It was right up my alley!! The writing, the story, the characters.everything was perfect! (Apr.Damn you Lisa Jewell for writing such an amazing story that ripped my heart right out of my chest! Damn you for making me bawl and sob into the wee hours of the night! Damn you for making me feel the pain and grief of all of the characters long after I finished the last sentence of the story! This book was one of the best that I've read in a long time. Skillfully told by several narrators (some of them ghostly), Jewell’s gripping novel transcends its plot improbabilities to connect with an emotionally resonant story of loss, grief, and renewal. But then unsettling coincidences start to emerge, most notably Laurel’s discovery that Floyd’s former partner, Noelle Donnelly, who he claims vanished five years earlier after dumping Poppy with him, was Ellie’s math tutor. After a shocking development in the cold case jolts Laurel from her lonely limbo, Laurel stuns herself by agreeing to dinner with a man she meets in a café, genial author Floyd Dunn, and quickly falls into a relationship with him and the younger of his daughters, precocious nine-year-old Poppy-who reminds Laurel eerily in so many ways of Ellie. Most profoundly affected is her now-divorced mother, Laurel.
The disappearance of beautiful, brainy 15-year-old Ellie Mack in May 2005 from her north London neighborhood takes a terrible toll on her parents and siblings, even a decade later. More than a whiff of The Lovely Bones wafts through this haunting domestic noir from bestseller Jewell ( I Found You).
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