Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs. When I mentioned on Facebook and Instagram that I was going to read this book, I was overwhelmed by the amount of people who said that they LOVED it! It is hard to read the despair and feelings of inadequacies that the family members encounter and at one point it was a little hard for me to continue.

Most of her plots are traditional tales that have been told before in some form, but the difference is that she knows how to take something that could be predictable and put her own spin on it. After starting this novel I couldn’t quit, her writing is just so compelling, those of the words I would use to describe it! As a reader I pretty guessed what had happened to Ellie, in fact the sisters I was reading this with also had the same thoughts.Ten years later, her mother finds new love (divorced her ex-husband though they still remain friends) and slowly learns of connections to her missing child who was feared dead.

THEN SHE WAS GONE kept my interest, but I can't say it was a thriller until the past was coming into the picture and the book went back in time to tell us the story of how Ellie went missing.The years went by and although Laurel kept pushing the police to do more…there was only so much they could or would do.

Since then she has published another twenty-one novels, most lately a number of dark psychological thrillers, including Then She Was Gone, The Family Upstairs and None of This is True. This is not a cliched version of fiction with a bunch of peripatetic perfunctory characters with a mandatory twist at the end to consider it as a thriller. As soon as their relationship become serious and she forms true bounding with Poppy, she surprisingly finds out the birth mother Noelle of Poppy who left her is the same woman who has tutored her daughter Ellie. Before too long she’s staying the night at this house and being introduced to his nine year old daughter.Although parts of the story are a little bizarre (Jewell says this herself in the Acknowledgements), she makes it work. Laurel, Ellie's mother, is struggling to get her life back on track and save her relationships with her two remaining children. Then Laurel is introduced to his little girl: Poppy, and she is dumbfounded to discover that Poppy bears a striking resemblance to Ellie, her Ellie. The blending of multiple genres in each of her books really creates a unique reading experience; readers of every gender and walk of life have been able to connect with her writing and I feel that's a sure sign of the highest quality of writing. Lisa Jewell is the internationally bestselling author of sixteen novels, including the New York Times bestseller Then She Was Gone, as well as I Found You, The Girls in the Garden, and The House We Grew Up In.