The setting is an English village, Upfield Common in the Surrey Hills, with the only significant local establishment an expensive boarding school that’s a place of last resort for parents with problematic or alternative-minded teenagers. The Night She Disappeared is Jewell’s nineteenth novel, and it thrives on a combination of suspenseful plotting and traditional mystery tropes. At 4.30am Kim awakens to discover that Tallulah has not come home.įriends tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a pool party at a house in the woods nearby called Dark PlaceĢ018: 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.Įnglish author Lisa Jewell had success with rom-com fiction before allowing her liking for darker themes to flourish in the series of standalone psychological thrillers that has made her a big-selling author. Midsummer 2017: teenage mum Tallulah heads out on a date, leaving her baby son at home with her mother, Kim.Īt 11pm she sends her mum a text message. “Mum, there’s some people here from college, they asked me back to theirs.
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