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Watch Me Disappear Jill Dawson

Watch Me Disappear By Jill Dawson

Watch Me Disappear by Jill Dawson


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Summary

Tina Humber is 40 and living in the States when a moment of panic about her 10 year-old daughter triggers the memory of her childhood friend, Mandy Baker, who went missing at the same age from the village where they grew up. As Tina replays events and the past comes back to life, she begins to suspect the awful truth of what happened to Mandy.

Watch Me Disappear Summary

Watch Me Disappear by Jill Dawson

By the author of Fred and Edie, this is a subtle, superbly written psychological chiller about desire both innocent and warped. Tina Humber is 40 and living in the States when a moment of panic about her 10 year-old daughter triggers the memory of her childhood friend, Mandy Baker, who went missing at the same age from the sleepy Cambridgeshire village where they grew up. As Tina replays events and the past comes back to life, she begins to suspect the awful truth of what happened to Mandy. But after so many years, will anyone believe what is based on nothing more than conjecture, intuition and fragments of memory? And even if she is able to placate the ghost of Mandy Baker, there will be profound consequences for the living, including herself. Set against the backdrop of the waterlogged Fens, Jill Dawson's powerful new novel captures the mysteries of childhood, and that volatile transitional stage when girls become aware of their attractions - but do not grasp the dangers.

Watch Me Disappear Reviews

'Intriguing and deeply moving' - Sunday Telegraph on WILD BOY 'An accomplished novel, rich with ideas and vivid characters' - Observer on WILD BOY 'An admirably perceptive grasp of human nature.' - Guardian on WILD BOY 'A triumphantly good novel' - Lynne Truss, Sunday Times on FRED AND EDIE 'Gripping... Dawson has got brilliantly under the skin of her main character.' - Daily Mail on FRED AND EDIE

About Jill Dawson

Jill Dawson is the author of TRICK OF THE LIGHT, MAGPIE, FRED AND EDIE, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and the Orange Prize, and WILD BOY, all published by Sceptre to critical acclaim. She is also an award-winning poet and has edited several anthologies including THE VIRAGO BOOK OF WICKED VERSE, and, with Margo Daly, WILD WAYS. She was the British Council Fellow at Amherst College, Massachusetts, in 1997 and is currently the Royal Literary Fund Fellow in Writing at the University of East Anglia. Born in Durham, she now lives with her family in the Fens.

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GOR002091284
9780340822982
0340822988
Watch Me Disappear by Jill Dawson
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Hodder & Stoughton
20060313
272
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