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Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa First Novel Award Shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award Mesmerising compulsive deliciously dark LUCY FOLEY Carmel is missing - but doesn t know she s lost. When sensitive distracted eight-year-old Carmel becomes separated from her mother at a local children s festival a man claiming to be her estranged grandfather finds her - and takes her. Unable to accept the possibility that her daughter might be gone for good Beth makes it her mission to find her. But in what she s told is her new family Carmel has embarked on an extraordinary journey one that will make her question who she is - and who she might become. Keeps the reader turning pages at a frantic clip.. What s most powerful here is not whodunnit or even why but how this mother and daughter bear their separation. CELESTE NG **Carmel and Beth s story continues in The Lost Girls - pre-order now!**.