Half the World Away

a chilling evocation of a mother's worst nightmare

Cath Staincliffe

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English

Constable
04 June 2015

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery

Newly graduated

photography student Lori Maddox spends the year after university

travelling and visits China where she finds work as a private English

tutor. Back in Manchester, her parents Jo and Tom, who separated when Lori was a toddler, follow her adventures on her blog, 'Lori In The Orient'.

Suddenly communication stops and

when the silence persists a frantic Jo

and Tom report her missing. It is impossible to find out anything from

5,000 miles away so they travel out to Chengdu, a city in the south-western province

of Sichuan, to search for their daughter.

Landing in a totally unfamiliar country, with no knowledge of the customs or language, and receiving scant help from the local authorities, Jo and Tom are forced to turn detective, following in their daughter's footsteps, tracing the people she mentioned in her posts, interviewing her friends, colleagues and students. It's an unbearably difficult challenge and, as the days pass, the fear that Lori is lost for good grows ever larger.

By: Cath Staincliffe
Imprint: Constable
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 444g
ISBN: 9781472121035
ISBN 10: 1472121031
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 04 June 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: www.cathstaincliffe.co.uk

Cath Staincliffe is an award winning novelist, radio playwright and creator of ITV's hit series Blue Murder. Cath's books have been shortlisted for the CWA Best First Novel award and for the Dagger in the Library. She was joint winner of the CWA Short Story Dagger in 2012. Letters To My Daughter's Killer was selected for the Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club on ITV3 in 2014. Cath also writes the Scott & Bailey books based on the popular ITV series. She lives with her family in Manchester.

Reviews for Half the World Away: a chilling evocation of a mother's worst nightmare

Praise for Cath Staincliffe: An intelligent and emotionally engaging moral workout - Daily Telegraph Praise for Cath Staincliffe: It's always exciting to see a writer get better and better and Cath Staincliffe is doing just that. Praise for Cath Staincliffe: Stunning Praise for Cath Staincliffe: Complex and satisfying. - Sunday Times