In bitter chill
By: Sarah Ward
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780571320981
Subjects: Family secrets; Death; Mothers; Suicide; Missing persons; Fiction
Description: You can't bury the truth forever ... Bampton, Derbyshire, January 1978. Two girls go missing: Rachel Jones returns, Sophie Jenkins is never found. Thirty years later: Sophie Jenkins's mother commits suicide. Rachel Jones has tried to put the past behind her and move on with her life. But news of the suicide re-opens old wounds and Rachel realises that the only way she can have a future is to finally discover what really happened all those years ago. This is a story about loss and family secrets, and how often the very darkest secrets are those that are closest to you.