This month we read Then She Was gone by Lisa Jewell.

In this dark psychological thriller, a 15 year old girl disappears without trace until 10 years later when some body parts are found. Then her mother meets a man with a daughter who looks uncannily like the missing girl. The story unfolds moving between the past and the present day and taking bizarre twists and turns.

We found this book disturbing and some of the characters extremely creepy. However most of us read it quickly, wanting to find out the full story of what had happened to the girl in the missing ten years. The characters were not very believable or likeable, so we didn’t feel much empathy for them.

Overall we didn’t enjoy this book, but several of the group had read other books by this author which were much better than this one.

Lisa Jewell is a British author of twenty plus novels, New York Times and Sunday Times number one bestselling author. This book was published in 2016, but was reissued last year and got to number one on the Sunday Times bestsellers list.