Now, her mother Laurel Mack is trying to put her life back together. She was days away from an idyllic post-exams summer vacation, with her whole life ahead of her. She and her boyfriend made a teenaged golden couple. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. Helen Duff is a very good narrator I wish I’d heard her narrating a pleasanter book."Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single father whose young child feels eerily familiar, in this evocative, suspenseful drama from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell-perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Liane Moriarty. The story is told via first person accounts including that of the deranged perpetrator, so unless you are pretty stoic, and/or prepared to stomach the heart-wrenching account of the damage the perp inflicts, this book may not be for you. I have read Gone Girl where the characters are fairly psychotic, but “Then She Was Gone” is more horrific because the crime is so depraved and against a minor. I did finish the book because I had to know, but I am torn about it, and can’t quite fully recommend it. The events are so heartbreaking that for me it shrouded this immensely interesting book in a pall of gloom. Ghoulish (not in the supernatural sense) and gruesome, and tragic. Except that as I listened, and I got farther and farther into the book, the book got pretty disturbing.
So, yes “Then She Was Gone” is the perfect package. Her words are nicely put together and have a “literary” feel for a mystery novel. She portrays events and actions and also lays out what her characters are feeling, so there is a lot of emotional depth. She builds up the story with pitch-perfect details and manages to sketch the characters just right. When I started listening, I was initially surprised that the book was really as good as the reviews said it would be.
I have no doubt that “Then She Was Gone” is a good book. Then Laurel meets Poppy Floyd’s younger daughter, and is quite taken aback because Poppy has an uncanny similarity to Ellie. She meets Floyd, a handsome stranger, and the relationship quickly blossoms into love, almost. Laurel stunned by Ellie’s disappearance, has retreated from life, from other relationships, her husband, her children, but now, post-divorce has begun to put her life together again. Ellie is never found and the trail gets cold. The police believe that she has run away although the mother Laurel Mack is sure she hasn’t. Ellie Mack, a lovely teenager, the light of her mother’s life, disappears one day.
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