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The Gone and the Forgotten

By: Clare Whitfield
Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
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Summary

A missing girl. Buried family secrets. An absent father. Is the truth worth searching for?

Summer, 1993. In the aftermath of her mother's suicide attempt, 16-year-old Prue must spend the summer holidays on a remote island in the Shetlands with her favourite Aunt Ruth and Uncle Archie, a man she's barely met since her aunt married him. Prue hopes to re-establish the relationship, and that her aunt might help her understand some of the parts of the past she has been forbidden to discuss by her mother—including the identity of her father.

Prue soon finds out that her uncle was the only suspect in the disappearance of a local girl some twenty years ago. As she grows closer to him, she learns there are differing views on how the beguiling Evelyn O'Hara disappeared, but is her uncle innocent?

Truth is something Prue has always had a fractured relationship with. A single version of the truth seems impossible for her to lock down....

©2022 Clare Whitfield (P)2022 Head of Zeus Coming of Age Domestic Thrillers Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense World Literature Thriller Fiction
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I couldn’t find time to read this, so I got it on audio for driving to my gigs. It took me a few chapters to get into it and then I was absolutely gripped. I am probably the age that Pru the main character would be now. I recognise so many of the things that went on in the 80s and 90s and covered up. I felt so much for Pru who had no decent adults to guide her and take care of her. She was surrounded by damaged and screwed up adults. You can see her heading for disaster and she doesn’t mean to. The end of the book you understand so much of some of the things that happened and why they happened. I also think Pru is Neurodivergent in the mix but in those days undiagnosed You could see some of it coming but not all of it. I felt sick at times there’s no denying but it was a gripping listen and I’m looking forward to downloading the next one of Claire’s.

A real “page turner”

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