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🎙🎙🎙 Narrated by Clare Corbett 🎙🎙🎙
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"Dear Daisy, I miss you so much. I'm sorry I broke my promise to never be separated from you. I have never given up the search for you. Your loving sister, Holly
Superintendent Jo Hamilton remembers the night all too well. Forty years ago, when she was a young constable, she was called to a domestic disturbance. Hours later, two girls, Holly and Daisy, are left behind, the only survivors of the fire started by their dad which killed him and their mother.
Against her own instincts, Jo had to leave the girls at Morley House children's home, a Victorian building teetering on the edge of Saltdean Cliffs in Sussex. She'd tried to keep track of them but found out the sisters were separated, little Daisy adopted and Holly, the elder one, getting into trouble until one day she disappeared, never to be seen again - around the same time as another of the girls in the home fell to her death on Saltdean Cliffs, assumed a suicide. But no one ever looked too closely into the goings on at Morley.
Now, as Jo is days from retirement, the bones of a female are discovered near Saltdean. Jo must return to the past and re-open the two cases fumbled years before, little realising the investigation will lead her closer to home than she could have ever imagined..."
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I hadn't experienced Emily Gunnis' work before, but after listening to 'The Girls Left Behind,' I won't make that mistake again. This novel had me thoroughly engrossed and I became deeply invested in the lives of its characters from start to finish.
Set in Saltdean, Sussex, the story follows Superintendent Jo Hamilton, who is just days away from her retirement. When a young girl's body is discovered buried, it raises questions about a case that has haunted her for decades. Jo is a relatable character and it's impossible not to empathise with her journey through guilt and the weight of responsibility for events that transpired on a fateful night many years ago.
The narrative seamlessly switches between the past and Jo's present-day investigation. Emily Gunnis skillfully unravels both past and present mysteries, which kept me guessing about how they were interconnected until the very end. And what a conclusion it delivers!
'The Girls Left Behind' goes beyond the typical police procedural; it's a captivating mystery with a haunting and emotionally charged storyline. The narration by Clare Corbett is excellent and she truly brings the characters to life and made this a book I didn't want to stop listening to.
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