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Vanishing Girls
Lauren Oliver
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Description for Vanishing Girls
Paperback. A psychological thriller about two sisters inexorably altered by a terrible accident, by YA sensation Lauren Oliver. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: YFCB. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 23. Weight in Grams: 230.
Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred and the two sisters totally estranged. When Dara vanishes on her birthday, Nick thinks Dara is just playing around. But another girl, nine-year-old Madeline Snow, has vanished, too, and Nick becomes increasingly convinced that the two disappearances are linked. Now Nick has to find her sister, before it's too late. In this edgy and compelling novel, Lauren Oliver creates a world of intrigue, loss, and suspicion as two sisters search to find themselves, and each other.
Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred and the two sisters totally estranged. When Dara vanishes on her birthday, Nick thinks Dara is just playing around. But another girl, nine-year-old Madeline Snow, has vanished, too, and Nick becomes increasingly convinced that the two disappearances are linked. Now Nick has to find her sister, before it's too late. In this edgy and compelling novel, Lauren Oliver creates a world of intrigue, loss, and suspicion as two sisters search to find themselves, and each other.
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444786811
SKU
V9781444786811
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Lauren Oliver
Lauren Oliver is the author of YA novels Ringer, Replica, Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls and the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium and Requiem, which have been translated into more than thirty languages and are New York Times and international bestsellers. She is also the author of two standalone novels for middle-grade readers, The Spindlers and Liesl & Po, which ... Read more
Reviews for Vanishing Girls
A mesmerising psychological thriller
Sunday Times Culture magazine
This brilliant thriller has a killer twist
Fabulous Magazine
A mesmerising psychological thriller that is also a teasing literary game
The Sunday Times
This is a tight, tense psychological thriller; a fascinating look at the complicated mixture of love, loathing and rivalry that can exist between ... Read more(starred review)
The twists and turns this novel take the reader on are both shocking and gripping...The carefully layered prose and intense emotions threaded through the pages kept me absorbed and intrigued from beginning to end. The writing style very much reminded me of Gillian Flynn... Thrilling, dark, and full of suspense, this book will take you on a psychological journey that you won't forget in a hurry
The Bookbag This book grips hard - it's impossible to put down, and there is no lull - the pacing is perfect.
The Book Bag on ROOMS 'Alarming and uplifting, a rare psychological thriller that has a kind heart at its centre. Read it with all the lights on'.
E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars A very sophisticated novel . . . Oliver handles her characters with an impressive lightness of touch and writes evocatively about youth . . . a clever, funny, insightful and utterly addictive novel
Daily Mail on BEFORE I FALL
Oliver has a terrific talent for old-fashioned storytelling, nailing your attention from the first sentence.
The Times on ROOMS
Thrilling and thought-provoking . . . Fast paced and consistently poignant, this tale quickly becomes hypnotically addictive.
Heat on PANDEMONIUM
Amazing, unputdownable!
Grazia on DELIRIUM
Lauren Oliver is the rising star of young adult fiction . . . [DELIRIUM] deftly conjures up a recognisably dystopian parallel to our own world, as convincingly terrifying as the North America of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
The Sunday Times on DELIRIUM
Praise for Lauren Oliver: 'The new Hunger Games'
Cosmopolitan
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Sunday Times Culture magazine
This brilliant thriller has a killer twist
Fabulous Magazine
A mesmerising psychological thriller that is also a teasing literary game
The Sunday Times
This is a tight, tense psychological thriller; a fascinating look at the complicated mixture of love, loathing and rivalry that can exist between ... Read more(starred review)
The twists and turns this novel take the reader on are both shocking and gripping...The carefully layered prose and intense emotions threaded through the pages kept me absorbed and intrigued from beginning to end. The writing style very much reminded me of Gillian Flynn... Thrilling, dark, and full of suspense, this book will take you on a psychological journey that you won't forget in a hurry
The Bookbag This book grips hard - it's impossible to put down, and there is no lull - the pacing is perfect.
The Book Bag on ROOMS 'Alarming and uplifting, a rare psychological thriller that has a kind heart at its centre. Read it with all the lights on'.
E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars A very sophisticated novel . . . Oliver handles her characters with an impressive lightness of touch and writes evocatively about youth . . . a clever, funny, insightful and utterly addictive novel
Daily Mail on BEFORE I FALL
Oliver has a terrific talent for old-fashioned storytelling, nailing your attention from the first sentence.
The Times on ROOMS
Thrilling and thought-provoking . . . Fast paced and consistently poignant, this tale quickly becomes hypnotically addictive.
Heat on PANDEMONIUM
Amazing, unputdownable!
Grazia on DELIRIUM
Lauren Oliver is the rising star of young adult fiction . . . [DELIRIUM] deftly conjures up a recognisably dystopian parallel to our own world, as convincingly terrifying as the North America of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
The Sunday Times on DELIRIUM
Praise for Lauren Oliver: 'The new Hunger Games'
Cosmopolitan
Show Less