Watch Me Disappear - Couverture souple

Intriguing and deeply moving (Sunday Telegraph on WILD BOY)

An accomplished novel, rich with ideas and vivid characters (Observer on WILD BOY)

An admirably perceptive grasp of human nature. (Guardian on WILD BOY)

A triumphantly good novel (Lynne Truss, Sunday Times on FRED AND EDIE)

Gripping . . . Dawson has got brilliantly under the skin of her main character. (Daily Mail on FRED AND EDIE)

A cracking page-turner of a novel, written with consummate skill and feeling. (Mail on Sunday on MAGPIE)

A compelling drama, full of subtle observation and wry humour (The Times on MAGPIE)

Taut with narrative tension and memorable for its superb descriptions of landscape and a multitude of deft touches that always seem just right. (The Times on TRICK OF THE LIGHT)

A brave and necessary novel (Daily Telegraph on TRICK OF THE LIGHT)

Tina Humber is 40 and living in the States when a moment of panic about her 10 year-old daughter triggers the memory of her childhood friend, Mandy Baker, who went missing at the same age from the sleepy Cambridgeshire village where they grew up. As Tina replays events and the past comes back to life, she begins to suspect the awful truth of what happened to Mandy. But after so many years, will anyone believe what is based on nothing more than conjecture, intuition and fragments of memory? And even if she is able to placate the ghost of Mandy Baker, there will be profound consequences for the living, including herself.

Set against the backdrop of the waterlogged Fens, Jill Dawson's powerful new novel captures the mysteries of childhood, and that volatile transitional stage when girls become aware of their attractions - but do not grasp the dangers.