![]() Ultimately, I wanted the story to go a certain way and it didn't, so for that reason, it wasn't a full five star read for me. ![]() Set in London, New York and Sydney, Lucie's career situation, friendships and her casual love interests propel the story along making it very readable.Ī Voice in the Night is a domestic thriller with a few twists and turns that I definitely didn't see coming. Does Lucie have a stalker or is Martin really back from the dead after faking his own disappearance? This still fascinates me, so how timely to come across this debut novel exploring the possibility of just that. I've since learned that people have been known to use a natural disaster or major incident as an opportunity to disappear, essentially faking their own deaths in order to start a new life somewhere else. In January this year, I read The World of PostSecret by Frank Warren and was haunted by this secret: "Everyone who knew me before 9/11 believes I'm dead." Woah! That was it, I was completely hooked and had to read this book. Twenty years later, Lucie is working at a prestigious law firm in London when she receives a note: Martin was planning on leaving his wife to be with Lucie but after heading off to the World Trade Centre on the morning of the 9/11 attacks, she never saw him again and grieved his loss deeply. In 2001, Lucie was an intern at a New York law firm having an affair with a married man. A shock I'm A Voice in the Night by Sarah Hawthorn has a premise that immediately hooked me in. Twenty years later, Lucie is working at a prestigious law firm in London when she receives a note: "At last I've found you. In a novel filled with compelling characters, and set in London, New York and Sydney, it seems that anyone could be out to sabotage Lucie’s memories and ambitions, including herself.Ī Voice in the Night is an addictive thriller of twists and turns, a gripping and emotionally resonant debut from a striking new voice.moreĪ Voice in the Night by Sarah Hawthorn has a premise that immediately hooked me in. Or could it be that someone else is stalking her, or that her vivid imagination is playing tricks? When she was working in New York as a young intern Lucie had fallen in love with him and he vowed to leave his wife to be with her permanently.Īs an inexplicable series of events occur Lucie wonders if her long-dead lover could have staged his own disappearance under the cover of that fateful day. Lucie hasn’t forgotten a man called Martin who was tragically killed twenty years ago in the 9/11 attacks. It seems an optimistic new beginning, until one day she receives a hand delivered note with the strange words: At last I’ve found you. Lucie hasn’t forgotten a man called Martin who was tragically killed twenty years ag Following a bitter separation, Lucie moves to London to take up a position with a prestigious law firm. Following a bitter separation, Lucie moves to London to take up a position with a prestigious law firm.
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