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Mapping the edge a novel

People go missing every day. They walk out of their front doors and out of their lives into the silence of cold statistics. For those left behind it is the cruelest of long good-byes. What happened to Anna Franklin? That's the question posed in Dunant's latest novel, detailing five days in the life of those close to an English journalist who heads off on a short holiday and doesn't return when she is expected. Waiting anxiously at home are Anna's six-year-old daughter, Lily; Lily's part-time surrogate father, Paul; and Estella, Anna's best friend and Lily's godmother, who has flown in from Amsterdam. Caught in a whirlwind of uncertainty, Anna's makeshift family lives from moment to moment, waiting for the phone to ring, the door to open, hoping beyond hope for a simple explanation of Anna's absence. Two parallel "what if" stories run the course of the novel, tangling the reader in a web of suspense and confusion. Is Anna depressed by Lily's growing independence and feeling a need to reconnect with the woman she used to be before she became a mother? Or is she the victim of a tragic obsession gone awry, kidnapped by a psychopath with no feelings of remorse? While either story could accurately explain Anna's disappearance, each version shows a different side of the missing woman and the motivations behind her sudden trip.

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  • "People go missing every day. They walk out of their front doors and out of their lives into the silence of cold statistics. For those left behind it is the cruelest of long good-byes. What happened to Anna Franklin? That's the question posed in Dunant's latest novel, detailing five days in the life of those close to an English journalist who heads off on a short holiday and doesn't return when she is expected. Waiting anxiously at home are Anna's six-year-old daughter, Lily; Lily's part-time surrogate father, Paul; and Estella, Anna's best friend and Lily's godmother, who has flown in from Amsterdam. Caught in a whirlwind of uncertainty, Anna's makeshift family lives from moment to moment, waiting for the phone to ring, the door to open, hoping beyond hope for a simple explanation of Anna's absence. Two parallel "what if" stories run the course of the novel, tangling the reader in a web of suspense and confusion. Is Anna depressed by Lily's growing independence and feeling a need to reconnect with the woman she used to be before she became a mother? Or is she the victim of a tragic obsession gone awry, kidnapped by a psychopath with no feelings of remorse? While either story could accurately explain Anna's disappearance, each version shows a different side of the missing woman and the motivations behind her sudden trip."@en
  • ""Anna, a self-sufficient and reliable single mother, packs her bags one day for a short vacation to Italy. She leaves her beloved six-year-old daughter, Lily, at home in London with good friends. But when Anna doesn't return, everyone begins to make excuses until the likelihood that she might not come back becomes chillingly clear. And the people who thought they knew Anna best realize they don't know her at all."--Jacket."@en
  • ""Anna, a self-sufficient and reliable single mother, packs her bags one day for a short vacation to Italy. She leaves her beloved six-year-old daughter, Lily, at home in London with good friends. But when Anna doesn't return, everyone begins to make excuses until the likelihood that she might not come back becomes chillingly clear. And the people who thought they knew Anna best realize they don't know her at all."--Jacket."
  • "Un jour, Anna quitte Londres pour un week-end. Sans dire où ni pourquoi. Le lundi, elle ne réapparaît pas. Tous les jours des gens disparaissent ainsi. Ils quittent leur maison, abandonnent leur existence pour s'évanouir dans le silence froid des statistiques. Pour ceux qu'ils laissent derrière eux, c'est l'heure du plus cruel des au revoir..."
  • "De mysterieuze verdwijning van een alleenstaande moeder leidt tot vele speculaties: is ze ontvoerd of heeft ze misschien een nieuwe vriend?"
  • "Anna, a self-sufficient single mother, heads for Italy for a short vacation, leaving her beloved young daughter behind with friends, but when Anna does not return from her holiday, a heated debate erupts over reasons for her disappearance."@en

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  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Translations"
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
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  • "Double sens"
  • "Na grani : [roman]"
  • "Na grani = Mapping the edge"
  • "Mapping the edge a novel"
  • "Mapping the edge a novel"@en
  • "Mapping the edge"
  • "Mapping the edge"@en
  • "Spoorloos in Italie"
  • "Yli rajan"@fi
  • "Yli rajan"
  • "Kurs mod afgrunden : spændingsroman"@da
  • "Mapping the edge : a novel"
  • "Mapping the edge : a novel"@en
  • "Spoorloos in Italië"
  • "Double sens : roman"

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