Hi all,
I got an exciting opportunity with Verve Books to review Heather Young’s plot heavy debut novel, which I was really excited by and I am sure you will be too!
So lets get into it, ‘Lost Girls’ is a thrilling twisting tale, one family and so many stories through different generations and not everyone is as they seem…
“In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family’s vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys the family – her father takes his own life, and her mother and two older sisters spend the rest of their lives at the lake house, keeping a decades-long vigil for the lost child. Sixty years later, Lucy, the quiet and watchful middle sister, lives in the lake house alone. Before her death, she writes the story of that devastating summer in a notebook that she leaves, along with the house, to the only person who might care: her grandniece, Justine. For Justine, the lake house offers freedom and stability – a way to escape her manipulative boyfriend and give her daughters the home she never had. But the long Minnesota winter is just beginning. The house is cold and dilapidated. The dark, silent lake is isolated and eerie. Her only neighbor is a strange old man who seems to know more about the summer of 1935 than he’s telling.
Soon Justine’s troubled oldest daughter becomes obsessed with Emily’s disappearance, her mother arrives to steal her inheritance, and the man she left launches a dangerous plan to get her back. In a house haunted by the sorrows of the women who came before her, Justine must overcome their tragic legacy if she hopes to save herself and her children.”
Lost Girls Cover by Heather Young
As I was reading ‘Lost Girls’ there were moments that gave me chills and goosebumps which is everything that you want from a thriller involving so many plots which keep the reader intrigued as to how everything is going to eventually pan out. This book kept me gripped from beginning to end with its historical description and modern day themes from the same family spanning many different years.
Praise to Heather Young, this book is an amazing debut and I can’t wait to read Heather’s next book ‘The Distant Dead’ is out in Spring 2022.
I know I’ll be keeping my eye out for that one as well. Again I can’t quite put into words how much I loved this book, the suspense and everything just kept the reader guessing until the very end.
Please let us know as always if you have read this book or plan to read it, as this book really is gripping for the reader, so you’ll probably be up all night reading.
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