PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Heather Young is the author of two novels. Her debut, The Lost Girls, won the Strand Award for Best First Novel and was nominated for an Edgar Award. The Distant Dead was named one of the Best Books of Summer 2020 by People Magazine, Parade, and CrimeReads. A former antitrust and intellectual property litigator, she traded the legal world for the literary one and earned her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars in 2011. Heather lives in Mill Valley, California, where she writes, bikes, hikes, and reads books by other people that she wishes she'd written.
Haunting -- Joan Smith * Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month * The delicacy of [Young's] writing elevates the drama and gives her two central characters depth and backbone...And the murder mystery that drives [THE LOST GIRLS] is as shocking as anything you're likely to read for a good long while * New York Times Book Review * Cleverly told through dual timelines of Lucy's journals and Justine's voice, this is sensitive and tense storytelling * Daily Mail * The Lost Girls is a powerful and bruising drama that astutely explores the reverberations of a shocking event through the inextricable layers of family. The story unwinds with a slow but insidious unease, building relentlessly to its shattering and heart-breaking conclusion -- Philippa East A story that is both eerie and incredibly sad... The Lost Girls is a poignant and engrossing thriller [and] a hugely impressive debut -- Carolyn Kirby, author of Times Historical Novel of the Year, When We Fall
