
What She Knew
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Penelope Rawlins
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Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
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By:
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Gilly Macmillan
In her enthralling debut, Gilly Macmillan explores a mother's search for her missing son, weaving a taut psychological thriller as gripping and skillful as The Girl on the Train and The Guilty One.
In a heartbeat, everything changes....
Rachel Jenner is walking in a Bristol park with her eight-year-old son, Ben, when he asks if he can run ahead. It's an ordinary request on an ordinary Sunday afternoon, and Rachel has no reason to worry - until Ben vanishes.
Police are called, search parties go out, and Rachel, already insecure after her recent divorce, feels herself coming undone. As hours and then days pass without a sign of Ben, everyone who knew him is called into question, from Rachel's newly married ex-husband to her mother-of-the-year sister. Inevitably, media attention focuses on Rachel, too, and the public's attitude toward her begins to shift from sympathy to suspicion.
As she desperately pieces together the threadbare clues, Rachel realizes that nothing is quite as she imagined it to be, not even her own judgment. And the greatest dangers may lie not in the anonymous strangers of every parent's nightmares but behind the familiar smiles of those she trusts the most.
Where is Ben? The clock is ticking....
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If you like mysteries, this will be a great pick for you.
Hasn't gotten the recognition it deserves
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Great premise but so slow
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Okay
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Good story line
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Much too long
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Fabulously told
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Slow, Too many Feelings, Too Much Estrogen
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A mother’s instinct...
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For anyone who has kids, this story is a little frightening and will make you want to hold them a little tighter with every twist and turn. The secondary plot lines keep the story moving along while the search for Ben in underway, the characters all have different backgrounds and motivations, the relationships are complicated and give this story depth and realism found in every family in modern life.
I enjoyed this book, but some of the female reader's voices were cartoonish and awkward when she wasn't narrating from the main character, however I was able to stick with it and was rewarded with a twisty dark story in the end.
Slow, but engaging
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Deserves more praise
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