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Large Item, Hardcover
When a teenaged girl disappears from an insular small town, all of the communityâs most devastating secrets come to light in this stunningly atmospheric and slow-burning suspense novelâperfect for fans of Megan Miranda and Celeste Ng.
The town of Whistling Ridge guards its secrets.
When seventeen-year-old Abigail goes missing, her best friend Emma, compelled by the guilt of leaving her alone at a party in the woods, sets out to discover the truth about what happened. The police initially believe Abi ran away, but Emma doesnât believe that her friend would leave without her, and when officers find disturbing evidence in the nearby woods, the festering secrets and longstanding resentment of both Abigailâs family and the people of Whistling Ridge, Colorado begin to surface with devastating consequences.
Among those secrets: Abiââs older brother Noahâs passionate, dangerous love for the handsome Rat, a recently arrived Romanian immigrant who has recently made his home in the trailer park in town; her younger brother Judeâs feeling that he knows information he should tell the police, if only he could put it into words; Abiââs fatherâs mercurial, unpredictable rages and her motherâs silence. Then there is the rest of Whistling Ridge, where a charismatic preacher advocates for Godâs love in language that mirrors violence, under the sway of the powerful businessman who rules the town, insular and wary of outsiders.
But Abi had secrets, too, and the closer Emma grows to unraveling the past, the farther she feels from her friend. And in a tinder box of small-town rage, and all it will take is just one sparkâthe truth of what really happened that nightâto change their community forever.
About the Author
Anna Bailey was born in Bristol in 1995 and spent her childhood in Gloucestershire. She studied Creative Writing at Bath Spa university and wanted to become a journalist, but ended up moving to Colorado and becoming a Starbucks barista instead. In 2018 she returned to the UK, where she enrolled in the Curtis Brown Creative Novel-writing course and wrote her first novel inspired by her experience of living in small-town America.
Release Date: 3 Aug 2021
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