How can you even begin to review this book? I certainly can’t do it justice through words… but here goes! I feel bereft that I’ve finished and that I wasn’t reading a book. I was immersed in 1970s America all the way through to twenty-five years later and I’m lost now that it’s over. This book is genre spanning and it’s impossible to shoehorn it into a specific category. It’s a domestic saga and although tragedy is at the centre of it, what happens after is also just as important and focused.
There were completely unexpected twists and turns, love, loss and growth. Despite the content it’s an uplifting read at the end of it all. Chris Whitaker is an extraordinary storyteller and this is a book not to be missed.
About the Book
A missing persons mystery, a serial killer thriller, and an epic love story – with a unique twist on each…
Late one summer, the town of Monta Clare is shattered by the abduction of teenager Joseph ‘Patch’ Macauley. Nobody more so than Saint Brown, who will risk everything to find her best friend.
But when she does: it will break her heart.
Patch lies alone in a pitch-black room – until he feels a hand in his. Her name is Grace and, though they cannot see each other, she lights their world with her words.
But when he escapes: there is no sign she ever even existed.
Left with only her voice and her name, he paints her from broken memories – and charts an epic search to find her.
As years turn to decades, and hope becomes obsession, Saint will shadow his journey – on a darker path to hunt down the man who took them – and set free the only boy she ever loved.
Even if finding the truth means losing each other forever…
About The Author
Chris Whitaker is the award-winning author of Tall Oaks, All the Wicked Girls, We Begin at the End, and The Forevers (YA).
His debut Tall Oaks won the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award.
An instant New York Times and international bestseller, We Begin at the End was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month, a Barnes & Noble Book Club Pick and a Good Morning America Buzz Pick. The novel won the CWA Gold Dagger Award, the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year, the Ned Kelly International Award, and numerous awards around the world.
Photo credit; Chris Whitaker
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2 Responses
I absolutely loved this book! The story had me laughing and crying. Chris Whitaker is a master storyteller!
This is by far the best book I have ever read! And I read a lot of books. The history the love the mystery the crime and all of it just grabs you in and is a true page turner from the beginning. I read this in almost a week. I can’t wait for his next novel. A true masterpiece!!!