the night she disappeared lisa jewell synopsis

Leaving home with just a backpack full of textbooks and a warning to her big sister not to eat the last piece of lasagna, Ellie headed to the library and was never seen again.Īs the months went by the investigation into her disappearance slowly waned. She and her boyfriend Theo had the kind of teenage romance only seen in movies and she was brilliant to boot. She was beautiful and happy, her golden hair practically a halo. The youngest daughter, the apple of her parents’ eye. While I wasn’t as enamored with it as I had hoped, I can’t help but feel that, had Ellie Mack been in that novel instead of Then She Was Gone, she would have been a Beloved. Where did Ellie go? Did she really run away from home, as the police have long suspected, or was there a more sinister reason for her disappearance? Who is Floyd, really? And why does his daughter remind Laurel so viscerally of her own missing girl?Įarlier this month I reviewed Maureen Lindley’s The Beloveds. And now, the unanswered questions she’s tried so hard to put to rest begin to haunt Laurel anew.

Before she knows it, she’s meeting Floyd’s daughters-and his youngest, Poppy, takes Laurel’s breath away.īecause looking at Poppy is like looking at Ellie. So when she meets an unexpectedly charming man in a café, no one is more surprised than Laurel at how quickly their flirtation develops into something deeper. It’s been ten years since her daughter disappeared, seven years since her marriage ended, and only months since the last clue in Ellie’s case was unearthed. 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. Summary: Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. Source: ARC via publisher (Thank you, Atria!)

The night she disappeared lisa jewell synopsis