The Day We Disappeared By Lucy Robinson

[amazon_link id=”1405911603″ target=”_blank” ][/amazon_link]’The Day We Disappeared’ is the latest book by the fabulous Lucy Robinson.

Annie has a secret. But if she’s not going to tell, we won’t either. It’s a heart-breaking secret she wishes she didn’t have – yet Annie isn’t broken, not quite yet. Especially now there’s someone out there who seems determined to fix her. Kate has run away. But she’s not going to tell us why – that would defeat the point of running, wouldn’t it? It’s proving difficult to reinvent herself, however, with one person always on her mind. Scratch beneath the surface and nobody is really who they seem. Even Annie and Kate, two old friends, aren’t entirely sure who they are any more. Perhaps you can work it out, before their pasts catch up with them for good.

Lucy Robinson is one of my all time favourite authors, she writes her books from the heart with frank and honest characters, humour and a twist that will leave the reader breathless and she definitely delivered this in her latest book.

The story is seen through the eyes of two friends Kate Brady and Annie. Kate Brady has left her busy job at Google in Dublin and travelled to England to become a trainee yard assistant with one of Britain’s most famous dressage riders, Mark Waverley and it’s here she has set up a new life trying to escape the old one that she has left behind. Meanwhile back in London, her new age scatty brained friend, Annie has found her dream job, after she ran into entrepreneur Stephen Flint, he has swept her off her feet and given her a new lust for life. The story flicks back and forth between the two lead characters and occasionally goes back into the past and is seen through the eyes of a young person, these chapters give the story an even more gripping element to it.

The main characters in the story both make for compelling reading, but with the wonderful accompaniment of the Le Cloob, Annie’s close friends, straight talking and wannabe French lady Claudine, Tim and her older sister Lizzy , their meet ups are frank and honest and make for delicious reading, as uncertain Annie has to deal with their forwardness. Meanwhile Katie, has to deal with the charming and handsome Mark. In every scene that he appeared, I imagined he was Colin Firth, his favourite horse Stumpy was a delight and outspoken and fiery daughter Ana Luisa regularly had me in fits of laughter throughout the story.

In Lucy’s style of writing, she creates a world with characters that you find relatable and fall in love with, you accompany them on their travels and wish with all your might that they get their happy ever after. But with Lucy’s books, this is never easy and there is always trouble on the horizon and in this book, there is an spectacular twist that will literally take your breath away.

Filled with humour, love and scandal, ‘The Day We Disappeared’ is an extraordinary story that’s impossible to put down and will have you guessing right until the very end.

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