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Harper
August 2018
On Sale: July 24, 2018
336 pages
ISBN: 0062309714
EAN: 9780062309716
Kindle: B071NKTYSJ
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Emma Healey follows the success of her #1 internationally
bestselling debut novel Elizabeth Is Missing,
winner of the Costa First Novel Award, with this beautiful,
thought-provoking, and psychologically complex tale that
affirms her status as one of the most inventive and original
literary novelists today. Jen and Hugh Maddox have just survived every parent’s worst
nightmare. Relieved, but still terrified, they sit by the hospital
bedside of their fifteen-year-old daughter, Lana, who was
found bloodied, bruised, and disoriented after going missing
for four days during a mother-daughter vacation in the
country. As Lana lies mute in the bed, unwilling or unable
to articulate what happened to her during that period, the
national media speculates wildly and Jen and Hugh try to
answer many questions. Where was Lana? How did she get hurt? Was the teenage boy
who befriended her involved? How did she survive outside for
all those days? Even when she returns to the family home and
her school routine, Lana only provides the same frustrating
answer over and over: "I can’t remember." For years, Jen had tried to soothe the depressive demons
plaguing her younger child, and had always dreaded the
worst. Now she has hope—the family has gone through hell and
come out the other side. But Jen cannot let go of her need
to find the truth. Without telling Hugh or their pregnant
older daughter Meg, Jen sets off to retrace Lana’s steps, a
journey that will lead her to a deeper understanding of her
youngest daughter, her family, and herself. A wry, poignant, and masterfully drawn story that explores
the bonds and duress of family life, the pain of mental
illness, and the fraught yet enduring connection between
mothers and daughters, Whistle in the Dark is a
story of guilt, fear, hope, and love that explores what it
means to lose and find ourselves and those we love.
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