Panic ensues and increases dramatically when only one of the girls is found at the next stop. A major investigation is launched but Sive begins to fear that this is more than her child just being briefly lost, and sets off to solve the clues herself. There are a lot of different strands to the plot and initially I wondered about the relevance of all the characters and how the novel would come together. However, Andrea Mara skilfully brings all the plotlines together and this is a compelling and fast paced psychological thriller. Apart from Sive, the characters are mostly unlikeable but I enjoyed discovering their secrets which contributed to the twists and turns of the plot and the various red herrings. This book was SO fast paced, every chapter left you on a major cliffhanger that I couldn’t put the book down. A perfect popcorn thriller.

I wasn’t thinking about writing books at all. It was only when my third child was born and I was trying to balance working full-time and bringing up three children, and dropping them to creche, or whatever, that I started blogging. The rest of the book is the frantic search by parents Sive and Aaron to find out where she is, who has taken her and why.The premise of this book was both tantalising and unnerving for me as a parent of young children (one of whom is a four year old boy just like the young child at the centre of this novel).

Was becoming a writer and getting those “what ifs and dark stories” ideas down on paper something Mara always envisaged doing? Tres mujeres forman el reparto principal: Marisa, Jenny e Irene. Además, hay bastantes personajes secundarios que harán las delicias del lector. Nos podemos encontrar desde personajes que odias hasta otros que anhelas en tu vida. Es muy variopinto el reparto y tiene cierta similitud con la realidad. Hay muchas Sarahs en el mundo.

It's only when you reach the next stop that you truly begin to panic. Because there aren't two children waiting for you on the platform. There's only one. Thanks to NetGalley & Bantam Press for an eARC of this book. The following review is my honest reflection on the text provided. Si bien los hilos que maneja Andrea Mara son complejos, no es una novela de sacar el conejo de la chistera. Ya en la primera parte nos da una pista de por dónde va la cosa. Como es lógico no es excesivamente evidente, pero ahí está. Otra cosa es que la veamos o la sepamos interpretar. De hecho, creo, que, con la traducción del inglés, se pierde una parte de dicha pista. Si reparamos en ella el porqué de los hechos está claro. A partir de ahí es ir encajando las piezas que la autora nos va dejando. No nos lo pone fácil. Es un auténtico puzle. Me lo he pasado fenomenal haciendo hipótesis. No hay personaje que no guarde un secreto. Nos hace sospechar de todo y de todos.