★英國亞馬遜「歷史小說」書籍#81

A missing teenager. An outcast woman in the woods. And a girl determined to find the truth.

London, 1960

The lives of teenage twins Maisy and Duncan change forever the night their sick mother is taken to an asylum. Sent to live in the New Forest with their cold-hearted grandmother, Mrs Mitcham, they feel unloved and abandoned.

And when one day Duncan doesn't come home from exploring in the forest, no one - least of all his grandmother - appears to care about his disappearance. The police, who've found the bodies of other missing boys, offer little hope of finding Duncan alive.

Yet Maisy refuses to give up. Though she doesn't know the woods well, she knows someone who does. The strange old woman who lives at their heart.

Dare Maisy enlist the help of the woman in the wood?

 

Lesley Pearse's novels have sold over seven million copies in the UK alone. Her twelve most recent books, including The Belle Trilogy, Dead to Me, Stolen, Without a Trace, Remember Me, Trust Me and Never Look Back, have all been huge bestsellers and are available as Penguin paperbacks. Lesley lives by the sea in Devon now, has three daughters and two grandsons and two granddaughters and a King Charles Cavalier called Stan.