Whistle in the Dark - Softcover

Healey, Emma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241327644 ISBN 13: 9780241327647

Publisher: Viking, 2018

Synopsis

Jen's fifteen-year-old daughter goes missing for four agonizing days.

When Lana is found, unharmed, in the middle of the desolate countryside, everyone thinks the worst is over. But Lana refuses to tell anyone what happened, and police draw a blank. The once-happy, loving family return to London where things start to fall apart. Lana begins acting strangely: making secretive phone calls, hiding books under her bed, sleeping with the light on.

As Lana stays stubbornly silent, Jen sets out to solve the mystery behind her daughter's disappearance herself...

About this title

About the Author:

Emma Healey wrote her first short story when she was four, told her teachers she was going to be a writer when she was eight, but had learnt better by twelve and had decided on being a litigator (inspired entirely by the film Clueless). It took another ten years before she came back to writing. She grew up in London where she went to art college and completed her first degree in book binding. She moved to Norwich in 2010 to study for the MA in Creative Writing at UEA and never moved back again. Elizabeth is Missing was her first novel; it won the Costa First Novel Award 2014 and was shortlisted for the National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year.

Review:

A compelling modern family drama with witty and wonderful characters. Utter bliss. -- Nina Stibbe This novel is a beautiful and rare thing - a page turning thriller with all the pain, warmth and humour of authentic family life portrayed. I absolutely loved it. -- Kate Hamer, author of 'The Girl in the Red Coat' 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' Healey is a natural story-teller -- Claire Fuller, author of 'Our Endless Numbered Days' I don't know anyone else who writes like this. Emma Healey's voice soars, sings and startles as she takes you right under the skin of her characters. She 'magics' the ordinary into the extraordinary and, just as impressively, transposes the extraordinary to the ordinary. Unforgettable. -- Jane Corry, bestselling author of 'My Husband's Wife' Will stir and shake you -- Emma Donoghue, author of Room on 'Elizabeth is Missing' Very good indeed -- Jojo Moyes on 'Elizabeth is Missing' A thrillingly assured, haunting and unsettling novel. I read it at a gulp -- Deborah Moggach on 'Elizabeth is Missing' I've never read anything like it -- Ruth Rendell on 'Elizabeth is Missing' A dark and riveting psychological thriller * Stylist on 'Elizabeth is Missing' * Every bit as compelling as the frenzied hype suggests. A gripping detective yarn and a haunting depiction of mental illness * Observer on 'Elizabeth is Missing' * Tender, fascinating, compelling, charming * Evening Standard on 'Elizabeth is Missing' * Harrowing, touching and hugely memorable. No conventional crime novel but a compelling work that crosses literary genres * Sunday Times on 'Elizabeth is Missing' *

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0241327644
• ISBN 13: 9780241327647
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304