They take to the open seas.Īs Sophie uncovers clues about what happened to Tallulah and Zach, primarily through social media, she navigates the anxiety of having moved from London to the countryside with a boyfriend who is ten years older. Scarlett convinces her mother to let Tallulah live, so Scarlett, Joss, and Scarlett’s brother flee to their yacht with a drugged Tallulah. Joss then makes hot chocolate, lacing Tallulah’s drink with sleeping medication. Scarlett’s mother Joss plans a way to get rid of the body, by dumping it in a hidden tunnel beneath the mansion. Hearing this, Scarlett picks up a heavy ornament and hits Zach over the head, killing him. There, Zach threatens to take Noah away if Tallulah leaves him. Scarlett and her friends take Zach and Tallulah to Scarlett’s mansion for a pool party. Scarlett wants Tallulah to end things with Zach. Eventually, Tallulah and Scarlett begin a clandestine affair. Tallulah has been feeling smothered by her controlling boyfriend Zach, who makes sure that Tallulah’s mother Kim never sees his dark side, so Kim thinks of him as a good guy. She befriends the beguiling Scarlett Jacques, the daughter of a rich banker. Tallulah narrates the events leading up to her disappearance. Sophie gets pulled into the mystery of Tallulah and Zach’s disappearance, uncovering clues that she hands off to Kim. Sophie, a writer of mysteries who is suffering from writer’s block, and her boyfriend, school headmaster Shaun, move to the same town where Sophie and Zach disappeared. Tallulah’s mother Kim now cares for Zach and Tallulah’s son Noah she grieves the loss of her daughter, whose disappearance was never solved. The first timeframe is 2017, one year since the disappearance of Tallulah and her boyfriend Zach. This novel has a complex structure, featuring three timeframes and three narrators: Kim Knox, a divorced mother of two her daughter Tallulah Murray and Sophie Beck, the girlfriend of a school headmaster. Jewell’s novels have sold over 5 million copies and have been translated into 28 languages. Critics have called her work “acutely observed” and have hailed her as a writer who “crafts a complex and thoroughly engaging thriller” “ The Night She Disappeared: Review.

Jewell has published 20 books her 2007 novel, 31 Dream Street, won the Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance.

The night she disappeared lisa jewell