You Were Here

De: Gian Sardar

Narrado por: Emily Rankin, MacLeod Andrews, Cassandra Campbell, Kim Mai Guest, Scott Brick

Fans of Kate Atkinson will delight in this suspenseful and romantic debut novel about a woman haunted by nightmares and her grandmother's role in a doomed love triangle almost 70 years before.

Death, accidental and early, has always been Abby Walters's preoccupation. Now 33 and eager to settle down with her commitment-shy boyfriend, a recurring dream from her past returns: a paralyzing nightmare of being buried alive, the taste of dirt in her mouth cloying and real. But this time the dream reveals a name from her family's past. Looking for answers, Abby returns home to small-town Minnesota for the first time in 14 years, where she reconnects with her high school crush, now a police detective on the trail of a violent criminal. When Abby tries on her grandmother's mesmerizing diamond ring, a ring she always dreamed would be hers, she discovers a cryptic note long hidden beneath the box's velvet lining. What secret was her grandmother hiding? And could this be the key to what's haunting Abby? As she begins to uncover the traces of a love triangle gone shockingly wrong nearly 70 years before, we, too, see that the layers of our lives may echo a past we've never known.

Featuring: Emily Rankin, as Abby; MacLeod Andrew, as Aidan; Cassandra Campbell, as Claire; Kim Mai Guest, as Eva; and Scott Brick, as William.

©2017 Gian Sardar (P)2017 Penguin Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Artfully weaving the past and present together, You Were Here is a stunning tapestry of a novel full of dreams, nightmares, horrific crimes and long-buried secrets. Gian Sardar shows us the ways in which the past can reach out and take hold of the present; that places and objects hold memories and time is not the linear thing we think it to be." (Jennifer McMahon, New York Times best-selling author of The Night Sister)

"Sardar's characters are well-developed and her prose is dreamlike, at times reading very much like poetry.... [T]his deftly executed study of the dark that lies in the human heart is artfully drawn. An impressive...debut with a touch of the otherworldly." (Kirkus Reviews)

"[B]eautifully written...this first novel will appeal to readers of Christina Schwarz and Diane Chamberlain." (Library Journal)

Hard to follow

There are so many characters and different little plots that this doesn’t even feel like a novel. Extremely hard to follow. I’m 10 hours in and I hate it. Going to try to return it.