Then She Was Gone

BESTSELLING PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE, AND A TOP RICHARD&JUDY SELECTION

OVER9005* REVIEWS this is what readers are saying:

'Grips to the point ofOBSESSION'

'My lifeSTOPPEDwhile I read this book'

'My heart wasTHUMPINGin my chest'

'This isEDGE OF YOUR SEATreading'

'This book left meBREATHLESS'

'Cancel all plans andBUY THIS BOOK'

************************ She was fifteen, her mother's golden girl. She had her whole life ahead of her. And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone.

Ten years on, Laurel has never given up hope of finding Ellie. And then she meets a charming and charismatic stranger who sweeps her off her feet.

But what really takes her breath away is when she meets his nine-year-old daughter.

Because his daughter is the image of Ellie.

Now all those unanswered questions that have haunted Laurel come flooding back. What really happened to Ellie? And who still has secrets to hide?

Lisa Jewell had always planned to write her first book when she was fifty. In fact she wrote it when she was twenty-seven and had just been made redundant from her job as a secretary. Inspired by Nick HornbysHigh Fidelity,a book about young people just like her who lived in London, she wrote the first three chapters of what was to become her first novel,Ralphs Party. It went on to become the bestselling debut novel of 1998.

Fifteen bestselling novels later, she lives in London with her husband and their two daughters. Lisa writes every day in a local café where she can drink coffee, people-watch and, without access to the internet, actually get some work done . . .

Keep in touch with Lisa: www.lisa-jewell.co.uk www.facebook.com/LisaJewellOfficial @lisajewelluk on Twitter