First published 2022
Dora Conlon wakes to find her seventeen-year-old daughter Ellie missing after a night out. With her lorry driver husband Eamon already gone for work, Dora calls Ellie's friends and checks hospitals. No one has seen her. When police arrive with news that Ellie's handbag was found discarded on a roadside, Dora's world fractures. Days pass without answers. Eamon shows little concern, revealing the emptiness in their marriage. The police investigation stalls. Alone and desperate, Dora begins her own search for Ellie. Her quest forces her to examine everything she believed about her family. As her grip on normalcy weakens, Dora prepares to destroy relationships and cross moral lines to bring her daughter home.
Genres: mystery, crime, contemporary, psychological-thriller, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: missing-person, unreliable-narrator
368 pages · Paperback · Constable
Content warnings: anxiety, depression, mental-illness