Book Review: Then she was gone - L. Jewell

I needed a book to escape and to relax and this fitted the purpose. A psychological thriller, fast paced, interesting enough plot, even if you can kind of guess what happens from very early in the story.
Not a masterpiece, I will probably forget all about it within a week, but while reading it, I enjoyed it and sometimes it is what matters!

Overall rating:  6     Plot: 6     Writing style: 6      Cover:  4

Title: Then she was gone

Author: Lisa Jewell
Publisher: Arrow
Pages: 448
Publication year: 2017

The Plot:
She was fifteen, her mother's golden girl.
She had her whole life ahead of her.
And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone.
Ten years on, Laurel has never given up hope of finding Ellie. And then she meets a charming and charismatic stranger who sweeps her off her feet.
But what really takes her breath away is when she meets his nine-year-old daughter.
Because his daughter is the image of Ellie.
Now all those unanswered questions that have haunted Laurel come flooding back.
What really happened to Ellie? And who still has secrets to hide?

The Author:

I've been here in one form or another for A Very Long Time Indeed.

My first book, Ralph's Party, came out in 1998, when I was still a young person and when some of you may not yet have been born. Since then I have written and published another fourteen books, from the 'curry and flatmates' novels of the nineties and noughties like Thirtynothing, One Hit Wonder, A Friend of the Familyand Vince & Joy, to more serious 'themed' novels like After The Party(marriage), The Making of Us (sperm donation) and The House We Grew Up In (hoarding) to my more recent domestic thrillers, like The Third Wife, The Girls, I Found You and Then She Was Gone.
I live in London with my husband, two daughters, two hairy cats, two nervous guinea pigs and a very lovely auburn dog. I write every day, a minimum of one thousand words, in a cafe, with no access to the internet, in two to three hour sessions. It's a very good life.