Losing You

A Novel

De: Nicci French

Narrado por: Imogen Church

In this thrilling stand-alone novel from the internationally best-selling author of the Frieda Klein series, a woman’s frantic search for her missing daughter unveils a nefarious web of secrets and lies.

Nina Landry awakens on her 40th birthday, anticipating a day filled with excitement. She, her new boyfriend, and her two children are taking a trip - leaving their home on Sandling Island, off the coast of England, for a dream vacation. As soon as her 15-year-old daughter, Charlie, returns from a sleepover, they can get ready to leave.

But Charlie doesn’t come home at the expected time. Nina can’t believe of all days, Charlie has chosen this day to be late. As minutes and then hours tick by, Nina’s annoyance soon changes to concern, and then to a chilling certainty that something terrible has happened.

The police insist there’s no reason to worry - yet. Teenagers are unreliable, impulsive. Nina always thought she and Charlie had a solid, trusting relationship, but seeking out Charlie’s friends for clues to her whereabouts makes her reconsider. How well does Nina know her daughter, really? How well can a parent ever know a child? And will everything Nina doesn’t know - about Charlie, her neighbors, even the friends and family closest to them - prove fatal...?

Losing You once again proves that Nicci French is at the height of their storytelling powers in a clever, mind-bending thriller that has listeners guessing at every twist and turn.

©2020 Nicci French (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers

Fantastic!!!

This book was not so much a mystery as it was an exercise in empathy! Both the author and the narrator succeeded in catching what every parent would if their child should disappear!!! I was drawn in immediately and could not wait to get back to it. Very well done. This was the first book by Nicci French I have read and I will look into more. Imogen Church is my favorite, I will listen to anything she reads. She doesn't read a book, she tells a story! Bravo to both!!!

Just OK

Way too much inner dialogue by the main character. I usually don’t mind inner dialogue, but it was at least half the book.

Excellent!

This is truly one of the very best books I have ever listened to. I highly recommend it!

The mother’s determination to find her daughter

I loved the narrator! She gave life and personality to the characters! I also love happy endings

great until the end

a good page turner ruined by an unsatisfactory explanation if why the perpetrator did what he did...I felt so disappointed at the end...like I missed a whole chapter.

Performance should have 20 stars!

I know without a shadow of a doubt that anything read by Imogen Church will be a smashing success! This was no exception. Nicki French spun an intriguing tale of suspense with rich characters set in a sea mist landscape. I only wish it had been longer.... I didn't want it to end. Add this to your list!

predictable

found Nina beyond frustrating and what was attempting to come across as a mother doing whatever it takes to find her daughter, ends up being repetitive and so many SMH because so obvious moments it just wasn't happening for me.

Never a dull moment

Pretty much anything that Imogene Church narrates is sure to be a winner;
This story included. It's a powerful race and chase. Keep up. Stay on track.

Really good book!

Not only was the story gripping but Imogen Church is phenomenal and makes the story and characters come ALIVE. I purposefully choose books to listen to where Imogen Church is the narrator and it’s given me the opportunities to “read” authors I hadn’t chosen before.

Gripping story with a nightmare protagonist

I just finished and honestly had trouble rating this book. the story was engaging, but the protagonist was beyond grating. she was illogically brash, deceiptful, and impulsive. it was really hard to listen to her internal monologue.... so much that I eventually skipped a number of 30 second segments of her blithering towards the end. I wanted to like her (Nina), as I think she was meant to come off as a heroic-behaving mom guided by love and instinct, but really I just hated her and wanted someone to slap her.