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'A brilliant read' B A Paris

Two sisters go missing
Only one returns.

Getting people to believe you is easy.

If you tell them what they want to hear.

When my sister and I disappeared three years ago,
they found Emma's car at the beach. Some people believed she had…

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1 author picked Emma in the Night as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is one of those books that left me wondering - what would I have done? It also made me question the way I judge people and how much of that judgement is due to the expectations of society and how much due to my own experiences. What does it mean to be good?
The story is about two sisters who disappeared. Then three years later one of the sisters returns. She tells her story slowly and carefully, pulling the reader along from page to page from chapter to chapter. She kept me enthralled to the end. An end which…

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