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Losing You - Nicci French

 
Description: ISBN 0718147820 / Author: Nicci French / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Nina Landry is supposed to be taking her two children on a Christmas ... more
Losing You - Nicci French ... holiday today. But the road away from Sandling Island seems littered with obstacles. Most pressing of all, her 15-year-old daughter, Charlie, has yet to return from a night out ...Minute by minute, Nina's unease builds to worry and then panic. Has Charlie run away? Or has something more sinister happened to her? And why will nobody take her disappearance seriously? As a series of half-buried secrets lead Nina from sickening suspicion to deadly certainty, the question becomes less whether she and her daughter will leave the island for Christmas - and more whether they'll ever leave it again.

Newest Review: ... tail round Sandling Island, the small island she lives on, in search for her daughter or clues to help find her. But when the ... more

 ... dead body of one of Charlie's friends turns up Nina's pace steps up. I did enjoy this book although it felt very mundane for the first half with Nina repeating things over and over and to be honest there just wasn't enough action for me. I think it was written to try and build up the suspense of what had happened to Charlie, but it came across as a little boring to start with. I had to make myself continue reading and I was glad I did because the last half of the book was a lot better with lots of revelations and ...more

salem_witch
Crowned Review Losing You - Nicci French: A Birthday You'd Never Forget (1202 words)
by - written on 09/12/07 (Very useful, 227 readings)
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Having read a handful of Nicci French books I grabbed 'Losing You' off the shelf at the library thinking it would do. I tried to recall what I thought of the previous books but my mind went blank. I thought that they must have liked them as I tend to remember the ones I dislike and had I loved them then I'd have also have remembered. I had no high expectations of 'Losing You' and sometimes that can be for the best. Nicci French is in fact a pseudonym for Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. They are a married couple who write in unison without the reader being able to tell who is who. I did a quick search to see who they went about this and they said they wrote a chapter and ...  Read the complete review

sheri3004
Premium Review Eight hours of suspense.... (667 words)
by - written on 06/03/07 (Very useful, 84 readings)
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It's no secret that Nicci French is a pseudonym for journalists Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, who, as well as writing the "Nicci French" novels together, also happen to be married to each other. Sounds like a recipe for divorce to me, but it clearly works for them - since the publication of their first novel, "The Memory Game" in 1997, they have produced a further eight successful novels, of which "Losing You" is the most recent. Both Nicci and Sean also write separately - Nicci as a journalist for The Observer - and both have also published novels under their own names. (Some of their novels have been adapted for the screen - you may ...  Read the complete review

mjc121
Premium Review Losing You - Nicci French: Losing you - story of a mother's worst nightmare (604 words)
by - written on 28/02/09 (Very useful, 108 readings)
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Nicci French is the name used by the husband and wife writing team of Nicci Jerrard and Sean French and up to 'Losing you' they have also had eight other best selling novels. This was the first of their novels I have read and whilst there was nothing actually wrong with the plot or storyline I have to say I haven't been compelled to buy any of their other books. I actually got this book in a 'bargain set' of five books via my book club. I bought the set for three other books in the set. (as the set was £35 for the five books I thought 'why not?') For me the best thing about the writing style is the description of the characters and the area the book is set. ...  Read the complete review

wendybull
Premium Review Pick Up The Pace! (373 words)
by - written on 01/08/09 (Very useful, 60 readings)
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On her 40th birthday, just as Nina and her family are due to fly to Florida for Christmas, her 16 year old daughter, Charlie, goes missing. Nina knows she has not just turned some teenage rebellion trick and that there is something seriously wrong with the picture, but trying to convince the police of this is proving difficult. Suspicous of everyone, even her ex-husband, Nina frantically chases her tail round Sandling Island, the small island she lives on, in search for her daughter or clues to help find her. But when the dead body of one of Charlie's friends turns up Nina's pace steps up. I did enjoy this book although it felt very mundane for the ...  Read the complete review

 

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