Then She Was Gone

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When she meets his teenage daughter, she can’t shake the feeling of how much she reminds her of her beloved Ellie. But Jewell uses some clever disguises regarding timing that make it complicated, and when you do figure it out about 2/3 of the way thru, you have to stop for a few minutes and think about all the repercussions, Then, it all adds up. Is it possible that Laurel could, at long last, find all the answers about her daughter’s disappearance? Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man.

How the author balances both stories and interweaves them into an amazingly realistic and beautiful conclusion can only be described in a word as brilliant.And now, their two remaining children are leaving home at the first chance they get - anxious to live their own lives, away from the oppressive tension within their home.

There were too many unanswered questions and she just knew that Ellie wouldn't simply walk away from the life she loved. A guilt trip is a type of emotional manipulation to make others think or do certain things in a particular way.Multiple other studies show different results with people's rational brain fully developed before or after this age. The further we get into the "then" chapters the harder it was to read them, I'd rather we didn't get Ellie's POV tbh. I think this is one of those books that I had such high hopes for that I let myself expect too much. Told from multiple points of view, alternating between ‘then’ and ‘now’, I was enthralled as everything was revealed. In chapters from Ellie’s perspective, she repeatedly brings up the subject of blame, thinking of all the moments that led to what happened to her and what she “should” have done differently, or what others could have done to save her.

My wife read this about a month before I did and I looked forward to our nightly rehash sessions of the section I read that day. I was always several chapters ahead of the characters and it sapped a lot of tension out of the story. When I mentioned on Facebook and Instagram that I was going to read this book, I was overwhelmed by the amount of people who said that they LOVED it! Thankfully everyone is feeling better and today is the first day where they are BOTH back at school! Lisa Jewell’s “Then She Was Gone” is a phenomenal psychological thriller that kept me enthralled throughout.Is it not more believable than a regular person saying she didn't like Floyd because he gave her the heebie-jeebies? The amount of courage and character she showed during the challenging experiences will make us love her more. They are ordinary people with ordinary worries who have ordinary awful things happen, and who react like I imagine that I, or any of my friends, would react should a child of mine go missing.