



Also, Poppy looks eerily like Ellie, her daughter who walked out of her house ten years ago never to return. He home-schools her and she has little knowledge of what it is to be a normal ‘child’. For one thing, Floyd seems besotted with her. When their relationship progresses, Laurel meets Poppy and gets a feeling that something is not quite ‘right’. His name is Floyd Dunn, and he is a single Dad to his nine-year-old daughter, Poppy. When she meets a man one day in a cafe, she thinks that – just maybe – she can salvage her life and have some happiness. Laurel is finally trying to create some sort of a life for herself. She has a tenuous and somewhat cold relationship with her daughter Hanna, and her son Jake. Now Laurel has sold the family home and moved into a flat by herself. Paul met another women who was there for him in a way that Laurel no longer could. Her marriage ended three years after Ellie’s disappearance. She was no longer ‘ there‘ for her two remaining children, or for her husband, Paul. When Ellie disappeared physically, Laurel disappeared emotionally. Her daughter, Ellie, was the light of her life. Laurel’s youngest daughter vanished ten years ago. It is nice to discover an author who you know you will read automatically – a ‘ go to‘ author.įirst we meet Laurel Mack. This is the third title I’ve read by Lisa Jewell and I’ve decided that her novels are all consistently good.
