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The Nowhere Girl
I open the last message. It’s just a single line. One sentence. Five words, black letters spelling out my guilt. I know what you did.
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If you passed Alice on the street, you couldn’t help but smile. At how she holds hands with her husband, Jack. At the adoring way she admires her three beloved boys.
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But if you looked very closely, you’d see how tightly she holds Jack’s hand, afraid to let go. You’d see how her smile can fade in a matter of seconds. You’d see pain behind her chestnut-brown eyes.
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Alice has created this life out of the broken pieces of her childhood. She has told Jack that she ran away from home when she was little – but she didn’t tell him the whole story. She’s never told anyone the whole story. The truth is simply too awful to say out loud.
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And then she receives a message. After a lifetime of fresh starts, her past is spelled out in five accusing words. I know what you did. Her secret is no longer a secret.
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Someone knows what Alice did. And now the family she loves so desperately is in danger.
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This utterly heartbreaking, beautifully written and gripping family drama examines just how far we are willing to go for our loved ones, and the desperate decisions we make when we have no other choice. Fans of Jodi Picoult, Kerry Fisher and Liane Moriarty will be blown away by this incredibly moving tale.
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My Daughter’s Secret
My baby girl, I’ll never forget you – your smile, your laugh, the way your hair sparkles in the sun. I cannot comprehend this pain. I cannot breathe through it.
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For Claire, life as she knows it is over. And after the death of her daughter, Julia, she is searching for answers. Stumbling upon a pile of letters, hidden under Julia’s bed in an old, battered shoebox, she feels closer to her daughter than ever before. They tell her that Julia was happy, that she was thriving at university, that she was in love.
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But as the letters go on, Claire starts to feel uneasy at something hidden between the lines. Even as she grieves, she must prepare to face a shocking discovery. Because Julia was hiding a terrible secret – and when it’s uncovered, it will make Claire question everything she thought she knew about her daughter…
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An emotional and gripping page-turner that will stay with you long after you finish the last page. Fans of Liane Moriarty, Lisa Wingate and Jodi Picoult will love this moving and poignant tale that is full of shocking twists.
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Acknowledgements
Thank you to Christina Demosthenous, who remains the most supportive, encouraging editor I have ever known. I look forward to her notes on every novel and I hear her voice in my head with each new book. Thanks to Victoria Blunden for the first edit that pushed this novel in the right direction and to DeAndra Lupu for her precise copyedit.
Also to Liz Hatherell for the proofread, Lauren Finger for editorial management and Lisa Brewster for the perfect cover.
To Sarah Hardy for all her work in publicity and the rest of the team at Bookouture, thank you for being such lovely, approachable people. I never have to worry about asking questions or sending an email. You really know how to make a writer feel supported.
I always have to thank my mother Hilary for being my first and last reader. I’ll always trust your judgement on whether or not a story works.
I have to mention my family, who celebrate each new novel and understand that the week before publication is always fraught. It will always be so – thanks for accepting that.
And once again thank you to those who read, review and blog about my work. Every review is appreciated.
We – both author and publisher – hope you enjoyed this book. We believe that you can become a reader at any time in your life, but we’d love your help to give the next generation a head start.
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Did you know that 9% of children don’t have a book of their own in their home, rising to 13% in disadvantaged families*? We’d like to try to change that by asking you to consider the role you could play in helping to build readers of the future.
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We’d love you to get involved by sharing, borrowing, reading, buying or talking about a book with a child in your life and spreading the love of reading. We want to make sure the next generation continues to have access to books, wherever they come from.
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Click HERE for a list of brilliant books to share with a child – as voted by Goodreads readers.
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Thank you.
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*As reported by the National Literacy Trust
Published by Bookouture in 2021
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Copyright © Nicole Trope, 2021
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events other than those clearly in the public domain, are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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