The Woman in the Wood: A missing teenager. An outcast woman in the woods. And a girl determined to find the truth. From The Sunday Times bestselling author
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- Synopsis
- 'A gripping new novel' HELLO! Magazine_______________London, 1960The 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?_______________'A real page-turner, a family story that is multi-layered just as you'd expect from Lesley Pearse, who is deservedly one of the world's favourite story tellers' My Weekly'Characters it is impossible not to care about . . . this is storytelling at its very best' Daily Mail
- Copyright:
- 2017
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 544 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781405921077
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781405932516, 9781405921084
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Date of Addition:
- 08/17/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Lesley Pearse
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Romance, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers, Parenting and Family
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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