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The Night She Disappeared

ISBN 
9781529125788
Format 
Trade Paperback
Recommended Price 
R310.00
Published 
August 2021
About the book: 
"Mum, there's some people here from college, they asked me back to theirs. Just for an hour or so. Is that OK?"
 
Midsummer 2017: teenage mum Tallulah heads out on a date, leaving her baby son at home with her mother, Kim.
 
At 11pm she sends her mum a text message. At 4.30am Kim awakens to discover that Tallulah has not come home.
 
Friends tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a pool party at a house in the woods nearby called Dark Place.
 
Tallulah never returns.
 
2018: walking in the woods behind the boarding school where her boyfriend has
just started as a head-teacher, Sophie sees a sign nailed to a fence.
 
A sign that says: DIG HERE . . .
Other titles by this author 
About the Author
Lisa Jewell was born in London in 1968. Her first novel,  Ralph’s Party,  was published in 1999. It was the best-selling debut novel of the year. Since then she has published another sixteen novels, most lately a number of dark psychological thrillers, including  The Girls  and  Then She Was Gone .
 
Lisa is a top 10  New York Times  and number one  Sunday Times  author who has been published worldwide in over twenty-five languages. She lives in north London with her husband, two daughters, two cats, two guinea pigs and the best dog in the world.

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