Title: Gone Before
Author: Sam Hepburn
PUBLICATION DAY: Oct 12th 2020
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Description:
‘My name is Phoebe Locklear. I think I’m your daughter.’
I rehearse the words as I walk up the path, clutching a faded old photograph of a little girl with thick dark hair.
When I knock, the door opens, and there she is: the woman I believe is my mother. The woman whose five-year-old daughter disappeared fifteen years ago.
Had I known what would happen next, would I have knocked on that door? Would I take back the lives I’ve destroyed?
But now that I’ve started, there’s no going back. I can’t stop until I find out who I really am.
Even if the truth could kill me.
Twisty, addictive and utterly unputdownable, Gone Before asks what happens when your whole life turns out to be a lie. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Gone Girl and The Silent Patient.
MY REVIEW:
Gone Before by Sam HepburnMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Maya Duncan disappeared when she was 5 years old and no one knew what happened to her.
Fifteen years after the abduction, Phoebe knocks on Kay Duncan’s door, clutching a yellow rainhat with Maya’s name stitched into the back. Phoebe is convinced that she is Maya Duncan, and that the woman behind the door is her real mother.
Phoebe has a letter from, who she thought was her real mother. saying how she took Maya (Phoebe) 15 years ago. Phoebe now has to prove it. Then Kay commits suicide and Phoebe feels gulity.
Phoebe decides to find out the truth about Kay and then things start to unravel and she has memories of her childhood.
There are surprises and some twists. Some I saw coming and some I didn't.
Thank you to Bookouture and NetGalley for the ARC to review.
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Author Bio:
Sam Hepburn read modern languages at Cambridge University and, after a brief spell in advertising, joined the BBC as a General Trainee. She worked as a documentary maker for twenty years and was one of the commissioners for the launch of BBC Four. Since then, she has written several books, including psychological thrillers Gone Before and Her Perfect Life, and novels for young adults and children. She won the 2017 CWA Margery Allingham Short Story award and has been nominated for several other prestigious prizes, including the CILIP Carnegie Medal for her YA thrillers.
Sam has worked and travelled widely in Africa and the Middle East, and is a trustee of the Kenyan’s children’s charity, I Afrika. She now lives in London with her husband and children.
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