The Night She Disappeared

This thriller was excellent. One of the best I've read in recent years! It was really well written, probablyLisa Jewell's best work, and the audio version was superbly narrated. I completed this book in record time, and it kept me guessing. Although I did figure out a few basic elements of the plot, I certainly wasn't able to guess how they were used by the characters, and my theories kept changing every few chapters. The characters were really well developed, the various settings were well described, multiple timelines and points of view were handled with apparent ease, and the book was wholly absorbing. I'm a sucker for protagonists who are writers, so I enjoyed that aspect with of the novel, as well as the themes it explored: controlling people, friendship, family, classism, narcissism, etc.

There was only one very tiny thing that didn't seem plausible and that was the protagonist not recognizing an element from one of her own books. While it is believable that a writer would perhaps forget plot details, I just couldn't accept that she would've forgotten this particular thing, and it's still not clear to me why she even needed to temporarily forget. Perhaps someone out there can enlighten me...?