One Puzzling Afternoon
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- Titel: One Puzzling Afternoon : The most compelling debut reading group mystery of 2023 / Emily Critchley
- Person(en): Critchley, Emily
- Sprache: Englisch
- Originalsprache: Englisch
- Umfang: 1 online resource
- Erschienen: london : Zaffre, 2023
- ISBN/Preis: 9781804181270 (electronic bk)
- Schlagwörter: Fiction ; Literature ; Mystery ; Electronic books
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Inhalt: Readers LOVE One Puzzling Afternoon : 'A little treat of a book. I loved it. I loved it.. I loved it' ' Wow . . . a beautifully and sensitively written novel that I feel sure will be one of my books of the year ' 'A beautiful and touching novel that will completely grab you' ' Edie Green is one special character & I think I'll remember her for a long time yet' 'What a beautiful, emotional, intriguing, touching novel' ' I loved this and finished it in one sitting. It truly is glorious' A captivating mystery perfect for fans of Joanna Cannon and Elizabeth is Missing On a suburban street filled with secrets, 84 year old Edie Green must look back into the past to discover what happened to her friend Lucy, who went missing years before . . . I kept your secret Lucy. I've kept it for more than sixty years . . . It is 1951, and at number six Sycamore Street fifteen-year-old Edie Green is lonely. Living alone with her eccentric mother - who conducts seances for the local Ludthorpe community - she is desperate for something to shake her from her dull, isolated life. When the popular, pretty Lucy Theddle befriends Edie, she thinks all her troubles are over. But Lucy has a secret, one Edie is not certain she should keep . . . Then Lucy goes missing. 2018. Edie is eighty-two and still living in Ludthorpe. When one day she glimpses Lucy Theddle, still looking the same as she did at fifteen, her family write it off as one of her many mix ups. There's a lot Edie gets confused about these days. A lot she finds difficult to remember. But what she does know is this: she must find out what happened to Lucy, all those years ago . . . 'A captivating and poignant book, I was completely hooked. You can't help but fall for Edie' Marianne Cronin, author of 100 Years of Lenni and Margot 'This is such a delicate web of a book, a mystery deftly woven with tension and compassion. Edie is a heartbreaking figure, struggling to catch her last memories before they're blown away fo
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