She now has a life of existing rather than living, bits of work here and there, just a few loyal friends and definitely no special person in her life, until the day Floyd sits down at the table next to her in the café. Ten years later, her mother Laurel is still grieving, her husband long gone and her other children wary of the woman she has become, never able to gain closure from that day when she went from a mother of three teens to a mother of two in the blink of an eye. There are a lot of what ifs?: what if her sister hadn't had a noisy friend over, forcing her to seek out somewhere quieter to study? What if there had been more CCTV on the high street so her journey could have been traced? What if, taking it back a bit, she had never met Theo, never fallen for him, never drifted into competition against him and never felt the need for extra swotting? What if, what if, what if? And what if actually, none of this had made a difference, because what happened was always going to happen, one way or another? One day Ellie went to the library for some last minute GCSE study and she never returned. Summary: The sort of story you don't mind giving up your weekend for, this is a brilliant read with all sorts of loose ends to tie up as you follow a decades long mystery of a teen girl gone missing.
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