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And then she was gone

Noonan, Rosalind. (Author).

Summary: Eleven-year-old Lauren O'Neil vanished one sunny afternoon as she walked home from school. Six years later, her parents Rachel and Dan still tirelessly scour their Oregon hometown and beyond, always believing Lauren will be found. Then one day, the call comes. Lauren has been rescued from a secluded farm mere miles away, and her abductor has confessed. Yet her return is nothing like Rachel imagined. Though the revelations about what Lauren endured are shocking, most heartbreaking of all is to see the bright-eyed, assertive daughter she knew transformed into a wary, polite stranger. Lauren's first instinct is to flee. For years she's been told her parents forgot her; now she doubts the pieces of her life can ever fit together again. But Rachel refuses to lose her a second time. Little by little they must relearn what it means to be a family, trusting that their bond is strong enough to guide them back to each other.

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  • ISBN: 9780758274991 (trade pbk.) :
  • ISBN: 0758274998 (trade pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: print
    320 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Kensington, 2014.

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Includes a reading group guide.

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Subject: Kidnapping -- Fiction
Genre: Psychological fiction.

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  • 12 of 13 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Smithers Public Library.

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  • Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2013 December #2
    Lauren O'Neil was 11 when she vanished. Now, six years later, her parents, Rachel and Dan, receive a call informing them that she's been found alive. Her kidnapper, Kevin, kept her on a decrepit farm mere miles from her home and used emotional, physical, and sexual abuse to control her and thwart escape. Noonan explores the family's reunion from Lauren and Rachel's viewpoints as Lauren slowly integrates back into noncaptive life, first in a safe house, then back home. Though Rachel's voice rings truer, both women are highly sympathetic and compelling. Noonan (All She Ever Wanted, 2012; The Daughter She Used to Be, 2011) writes another gripping family story that handles sensitive issues with grace by focusing on the aftermath rather than lurid details of the kidnapping. The timely plot, which calls to mind Jaycee Dugard and the young women who escaped captivity in Cleveland, will hold readers in its sway. Copyright 2013 Booklist Reviews.
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