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Gallery Books
February 2018
On Sale: February 6, 2018
304 pages
ISBN: 150118122X
EAN: 9781501181221
Kindle: B074ZLGM3G
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Thriller | Suspense Psychological
For fans of Louise Penny and Tana French, this haunting debut novel βwith a slight Broadchurch feelβ (Sunday Herald) explores the devastating repercussions of a long- ago crime as it delves into forbidden relationships, the emotional bond between mothers and daughters, and the dark consequences of harboring secrets. It is the summer of 1956, and fifteen-year-old Betty Broadbent has never left the Cornish fishing village of St. Steele or ventured far beyond the walls of the Hotel Eden, the slightly ramshackle boarding house run by her moody, unpredictable mother. But Bettyβs world is upended when a string of brutal murders brings Londonβs press corps flooding into the village, many of whom find lodging at the Hotel Eden. She is instantly transfixed by one of the reporters, the mysterious and strangely aloof Mr. Gallagherβand he, fully twice her age, seems equally transfixed by her. The unlikely relationship that blooms between Betty and Mr. Gallagher is as overlaid with longing and desire as it is with impropriety and even menace. And as the shocking death toll rises, both Betty and Mr. Gallagher are forced to make a devastating choice, one that will shape their own livesβand the life of an innocent manβ forever. With narratives that shift from 1956 to the present day and back, The Unforgotten is a mesmerizing and eerie portrayal of two people bound to each other by a secret that has the power to shape, and destroy, lives.
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