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Whistle in the Dark: A Novel
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Emma Healey follows the success of her #1 internationally bestselling debut novel Elizabeth Is Missing, winner of the Costa First Novel Award, with this beautiful, thought-provoking, and psychologically complex tale that affirms her status as one of the most inventive and original literary novelists today.

Jen and Hugh Maddox have just survived every parent's worst nightmare.

Relieved, but still terrified, they sit by the hospital bedside of their fifteen-year-old daughter, Lana, who was found bloodied, bruised, and disoriented after going missing for four days during a mother-daughter vacation in the country. As Lana lies mute in the bed, unwilling or unable to articulate what happened to her during that period, the national media speculates wildly and Jen and Hugh try to answer many questions.

Where was Lana? How did she get hurt? Was the teenage boy who befriended her involved? How did she survive outside for all those days? Even when she returns to the family home and her school routine, Lana only provides the same frustrating answer over and over: "I can't remember."

For years, Jen had tried to soothe the depressive demons plaguing her younger child, and had always dreaded the worst. Now she has hope—the family has gone through hell and come out the other side. But Jen cannot let go of her need to find the truth. Without telling Hugh or their pregnant older daughter Meg, Jen sets off to retrace Lana's steps, a journey that will lead her to a deeper understanding of her youngest daughter, her family, and herself.

A wry, poignant, and masterfully drawn story that explores the bonds and duress of family life, the pain of mental illness, and the fraught yet enduring connection between mothers and daughters, Whistle in the Dark is a story of guilt, fear, hope, and love that explores what it means to lose and find ourselves and those we love.

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Jen and Hugh Maddox have just survived every parent's worst nightmare.

Relieved, but still terrified, they sit by the hospital bedside of their fifteen-year-old daughter, Lana, who was found bloodied, bruised, and disoriented after going missing for four days during a mother-daughter vacation in the country. As Lana lies mute in the bed, unwilling or unable to articulate what happened to her during that period, the national media speculates wildly and Jen and Hugh try to answer many questions.

Where was Lana? How did she get hurt? Was the teenage boy who befriended her involved? How did she survive outside for all those days? Even when she returns to the family home and her school routine, Lana only provides the same frustrating answer over and over: "I can't remember."

For years, Jen had tried to soothe the depressive demons plaguing her younger child, and had always dreaded the worst. Now she has hope—the family has gone through hell and come out the other side. But Jen cannot let go of her need to find the truth. Without telling Hugh or their pregnant older daughter Meg, Jen sets off to retrace Lana's steps, a journey that will lead her to a deeper understanding of her youngest daughter, her family, and herself.

A wry, poignant, and masterfully drawn story that explores the bonds and duress of family life, the pain of mental illness, and the fraught yet enduring connection between mothers and daughters, Whistle in the Dark is a story of guilt, fear, hope, and love that explores what it means to lose and find ourselves and those we love.

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        "[An] absorbing thriller. . . . Healey writes movingly about motherly love, and the pain that comes when you can't protect your own, even from themselves." — The New Yorker

        "For those who like their thrillers a little more literary, this one's for you. Healey's follow-up to her breakout Elizabeth Is Missing promises a psychologically arresting mystery surrounding the disappearance of a 15-year-old girl. Intriguing commentary on mental illness, trauma, and family life abounds." — Entertainment Weekly, "Summer's 11 Hottest Thrillers"

        "What starts with a thrillerish seteup—missing teen—takes us to a more familiar but equally disturbing place. Trying to understand what happened to her daughter, Jen learns that we may be our own greatest fear." — Family Circle, "Summer's Best Books"

        "You have to read Whistle in the Dark. . . . A powerful novel about shared trauma, the effects of mental health on the family, and the pressures of motherhood, this is a slow-burning and utterly unsettling domestic thriller you will have a hard time putting down." — Bustle

        "Gripping psychological suspense pitting a hostile teen who won't explain herself against a mom turned detective who'll risk even her sanity to reach her daughter."
        People, "The Best New Books"

        "An absorbing view of a family, with the emphasis on the mother-daughter connection, in which—flaws aside—love shines through." — Booklist (starred review)

        "I don't know anyone else who writes like this. Emma Healey's voice soars, sings, and startles as she takes you right under the skin of her characters. She 'magics' the ordinary into the extraordinary and, just as impressively, transposes the extraordinary to the ordinary. Unforgettable." Jane Corry, author of My Husband's Wife and Blood Sisters

        PRAISE FOR ELIZABETH IS MISSING::

        "[A] knockout debut...Ms. Healey's audacious conception and formidable talent combine in a bravura performance that sustains its momentum and pathos to the last." — Wall Street Journal

        "Spellbinding." — New York Times Book Review

        "Elizabeth is Missing will stir and shake you: an investigation into a seventy-year-old crime, through the eyes of the most likeably unreliable of narrators. But the real mystery at its compassionate core is the fragmentation of the human mind." — Emma Donoghue, author of Room

        "Part mystery, part meditation on memory, part Dickensian revelation of how apparent charity may hurt its recipients, this is altogether brilliant." — Booklist (starred review)

        "A poignant novel of loss." — Kirkus Reviews

        "British author Healey draws on her own grandmothers' experiences to create the distinctive narrator of her first novel... an absorbing tale." — Publishers Weekly

        "Bold, touching and hugely memorable." — Sunday Times (London)

        "What's truly astonishing about the book is that its author—a web administrator at the University of East Anglia—isn't even 30 years old. How can she know what it's like for a person to lose herself, bit by bit? How can her descriptions of World War II, with all the shabbiness and rationing and black-market intrigue, be so vivid? Of course, Healey is able to imagine and empathize on such a level because she's simply a brilliant writer. Let's hope we hear much more...

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        February 15, 2018

        "I can't remember." That's what 15-year-old Lana says repeatedly as she lies bruised and confused in a hospital bed after having been missing for four days. Always worried about Lana's emotional seesawing, her mother quietly goes off to reconstruct Lana's lost time and discover what happened to her. Healey's No. 1 internationally best-selling debut novel, Elizabeth Is Missing, won the Costa First Novel Award.

        Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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        May 15, 2018
        After four agonizing days, Jen and Hugh Maddox's 15-year-old daughter, Lana, has been found, bloodied and soaking wet. But where has she been?Lana herself cannot--or will not--say. The clues are scant: While on a mother-daughter painting course in the English countryside, Lana simply vanished one night and turned up four days later, spotted by a farmer. Did Lana leave voluntarily, or was she taken? Could fellow artist Stephen, a minister of the New Lollards Fellowship, a sect fascinated by visits to hell, have taken her? Or perhaps Matthew, the son of the holiday-center manager, lured Lana away? Remembering how she caught Lana last year with a plastic bag full of painkillers, Jen fears that Lana may have intended to harm herself. After Lana is discharged from the hospital, the Maddoxes return to London and attempt to patch their family back together. Still riddled with questions, Jen begins to investigate. In short, deft narrative fragments, Healey (Elizabeth Is Missing, 2014) captures Jen's piecing together of Lana's fragile psyche. Hoping to find clues, Jen scrutinizes Lana's sketchbook, her Instagram account, and the books hidden under her bed, alarmed to find repeated references to the end of life. With echoes of Demeter's rescue of Persephone, Jen's investigation into what happened over those four days becomes a quest to understand her daughter's mental illness and accept her broken memories. Healey beautifully depicts Lana's sense of unease in her own body: When asked by her therapist to find an image that symbolically represents her discomfort, Lana chooses one of birds, explaining that she feels as if she were full of fluttering birds eager to escape her skin. Along the way, Jen must face her own psychological quirks (including possibly imaginary cats) and walk in Lana's footsteps.An exquisite portrait of a mother's healing love for her troubled daughter.

        COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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        Starred review from June 1, 2018
        In a twist on the standard missing-person plotline, this novel opens with finding a missing teenager. Fifteen-year-old Lana Maddox, on a painting holiday with her mother in England's Peak District, has been missing for four days when she's found with a bloody head wound, bruises, and no apparent memory of her ordeal. But despite their relief, parents Jen and Hugh Maddox know that Lana's past includes depression, self-harming, and suicidal thoughts, and that she has gone missing before. Jen wants answers from her daughter about what occurred, answers that aren't forthcoming, as Lana is alternately distant, insolent, mysterious, and?rarely?approachable to the verge of affectionate. Lana's older sister, Meg, steps in to help, but she has her own concerns; a lesbian who recently broke up with her girlfriend, she's midway through a pregnancy via artificial insemination from a straight male friend. Healey (Elizabeth Is Missing, 2014) fashions this novel in titled sections, ranging in length from a few lines to a few pages, a technique that advances the narration, along with flashbacks, while eliminating extraneous details and building suspense naturally. The result is an absorbing view of a family, with the emphasis on the mother-daughter connection, in which?flaws aside?love shines through.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

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Jen and Hugh Maddox have just survived every parent's worst nightmare.

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