Whistle in the Dark

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Dark family mystery; unsettling, mother-daughter odyssey.

Feeling tense with a love for complex family dynamics? "Whistle in the Dark" plunges you into the whirlwind of a mother's desperation to understand her silent daughter. Emma Healey masterfully crafts a psychological tapestry that weaves motherly love with the enigma of a teenager's silence after a harrowing experience. It's a reading experience that will keep you turning pages, searching for truth in the shadows of unspoken trauma.

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Whistle in the Dark

Regular price $15.90
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Compare to estimated retail price: S$26.63  
ISBN: 9780241327647
Authors: Emma Healey
Publisher: Viking
Date of Publication: 2018-04-24
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Mystery/Crime/Thriller
Related Topics: Suspense, Mystery, Thriller
Goodreads rating: 3.01
(rated by 6085 readers)

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Emma Healey follows the success of her #1 internationally bestselling debut novel Elizabeth Is Missing, winner of the Costa First Novel Award, with this beautiful, thought-provoking, and psychologically complex tale that affirms her status as one of the most inventive and original literary novelists today. Jen and Hugh Maddox have just survived every parent’s worst nightmare. Relieved, but still terrified, they sit by the hospital bedside of their fifteen-year-old daughter, Lana, who was found bloodied, bruised, and disoriented after going missing for four days during a mother-daughter vacation in the country. As Lana lies mute in the bed, unwilling or unable to articulate what happened to her during that period, the national media speculates wildly and Jen and Hugh try to answer many questions. Where was Lana? How did she get hurt? Was the teenage boy who befriended her involved? How did she survive outside for all those days? Even when she returns to the family home and her school routine, Lana only provides the same frustrating answer over and over: “I can’t remember.” For years, Jen had tried to soothe the depressive demons plaguing her younger child, and had always dreaded the worst. Now she has hope—the family has gone through hell and come out the other side. But Jen cannot let go of her need to find the truth. Without telling Hugh or their pregnant older daughter Meg, Jen sets off to retrace Lana
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Dark family mystery; unsettling, mother-daughter odyssey.

Feeling tense with a love for complex family dynamics? "Whistle in the Dark" plunges you into the whirlwind of a mother's desperation to understand her silent daughter. Emma Healey masterfully crafts a psychological tapestry that weaves motherly love with the enigma of a teenager's silence after a harrowing experience. It's a reading experience that will keep you turning pages, searching for truth in the shadows of unspoken trauma.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.