GONE

The deeper into the past she digs, the higher the price she must pay for the truth.

It's been ten years since Alison's perfect world fell apart. Ten years since her son Sam disappeared while on a family holiday. Lost at sea, they said, his body never found. And even though her brother and sister were supposedly looking after the kids, Alison will always blame herself.

Caught in a spiralling web of all-consuming grief where the lines between reality and fantasy blur, Alison refuses to let go. So when her ex-husband seeks to have Sam officially pronounced dead, Alison embarks upon a desperate and harrowing quest to discover what really happened that day on the beach.

But is the truth worth losing what is left of her sanity?

Dreda Say Mitchell, alongside her husband Ryan Carter, have published over twenty novels, including Spare Room, their first psychological thriller, which became a #1 UK bestseller. Dreda has written and performed a specially commissioned monologue for Art 50 on Sky Arts, appeared on television including BBC Breakfast, Sunday Morning Live, Newsnight and The Review Show, celebrity Pointless. She has presented BBC Radio 4's flagship books programme, Open Book, written for newspapers, and was named one of Britain's 50 Remarkable Women by Lady Geek in association with Nokia. In 2004, she scooped the CWA's John Creasey Dagger Award for best first-time crime novel, the first time a Black British author had been awarded this honour. A passionate campaigner and speaker on social issues and the arts, she is a trustee of the Royal Literary Fund and an ambassador for The Reading Agency. Her Majesty the Queen awarded Dreda an MBE on her New Year's Honours' List, 2020.