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Harper
November 2018
On Sale: October 23, 2018
400 pages
ISBN: 0062834657
EAN: 9780062834652
Kindle: B073B43HRN
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From Vogue Amsterdam columnist Sarah Meuleman comes a haunting, whip-smart debut novel about second chances and the lengths one young woman will go to keep her dark secrets sealed in the past. 1996. In the sleepy hamlet of Bachte-Maria-Leerne, in the Belgian countryside, the residents are reeling from the disappearance of several young girls. The country is thrown into a state of emergency and even after the killer is apprehended, not all the girls missing are found alive, causing further alarm and political protests in the form of White Marches. At the local school, St. Martinโs High, the devastating news is met more with morbid fascination than fear among its studentsโexcept for twelve-year-old Sophie. Unlike her peers, Sophie knows what itโs like to be afraid and never truly feel safe. The only time she feels a sense of security and belonging is when sheโs with her best friend Hannahโฆ if only she could confide her darkest secrets to the girl she admiresโฆ the girl whose home life is so very different from Sophieโsโฆ the girl whom Sophie wishes she could be more like. When Hannah begins hanging out at a popular teenage club โThe Sloopโ and starts dating the charming and clever Damian, Sophie suddenly feels left out. With each day, Sophie notices Hannah drifting farther from her. Before the friends can reconcile, the village is thrown into fresh panic when Sophie fails to return home after a high school danceโand is never seen again. 2014. Hannah is living the life most young women dream of as a successful columnist for a fashion magazine in New York City. But after years of being the party reporter, documenting the revelries of the rich and famous, she craves a deeper subject for her writing. Quitting her job and leaving her former glitzy Manhattan lifestyle for a run-down apartment in Brooklyn, she spends her days writing a biography of three famous authors: Agatha Christie, Barbara Follett, and Virginia Woolfโthree women who struggled with family, loyalty, and ambitionโฆ three women who one day disappeared without a trace. As Hannah delves into her research and the lives of these luminaries, sheโs forced to confront questions sheโs tried so hard to repress. What happened to Sophie that night? How does a person just go missing, never to be heard from again? Taking readers on an exhilarating journey from the Flemish countryside to New York, Find Me Gone is equal parts thriller and tender coming-of-age story that will leave readers wondering until the final pageโฆ What happened to Sophie?
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