Information:
Writer: Nicci French
Title: Losing you
Editor: Anthos
Presses: five
Summary
When Nina comes home from tea at her friend Rick's, she expected her daughter Charlie, to be home already. They would go on a holiday to Florida and Charlie still has to clean up her room. When the bell rings she noticed there was a surprise party for her fortieth birthday… She drinks something and after that she sends everybody home. Charlie still isn’t there. She calls the bookshop, Charlie is a paper-girl and had to do her papers that day. She did pick up her papers that morning. Nina calls the police and explains the whole story, but the police said she has to wait, and Charlie will be home soon. Nina gets mad and jells at the police, after that the police takes her more seriously and they come to her house.
The search begins. Nina thinks the police aren’t doing everything they can, so she goes searching on her own . Soon she found out that Charlie is kidnapped! Nina calls al her friends, Charlie’s best friend Ashleigh gives her the name Jay, the name of her boyfriend. Charlie had never told Nina anything about Jay, and not about her and Jay having sex. Nina discovers a whole new life of Charlie. She calls Jay. Jay tells her that Charlie once slept with another boy, Graham and Jay takes her to their meeting point, the boats. Nina finds a dead body in the boat, the body of Olivia Mullen. When Nina starts thinking about the name Olivia, she remembers something, but she doesn’t know what, or where. She calls the police and the police take her with them. When they arrived at the police-station, Rory, her ex-husband, is in interrogation, she had seen his car already. Her son, Jackson calls her, his gameboy is in the car of Rory, when Nina went to Rory’s car to take Jacksons gameboy, she finds Charlie’s backpack and her scarf!! Rory is the next suspect. Nina can’t believe, and searched further, she finds a card in Charlie’s room with: lov, liv.
This card is from Olivia! The text on the card says that Olivia is breaking up with her lover, Rick! Olivia is dead, after she told Rick she’s leaving him, Charlie knows more about their relationship and asks Rick about it, Rick is frightened and has to loose Charlie! Nina has got the solution! She knows where Charlie is. She drove to Rick's house and follows Rick in his car, he drove to a bunker. Nina beats Rick and Rick gets unconscious. She saved Charlie’s life! Rick wanted to kill her! When the police and the ambulance came, they took Nina and Charlie to the hospital, both are wounded, but will survive… Rick is dead, he drowned in the sea.
Characters
Charlie: Charlie lives on a island with her mother and her brother. She’s been missing and at school she gets teased by a group of girls.
Nina: Nina is the mother of Charlie and Jackson, Charlie’s little brother. She’s very worried about Charlie
Jay: Jay is Charlie’s boyfriend, he helps Nina with finding Charlie, but isn’t as worried as she is.
Rory: Rory is Charlie’s dad. He doesn’t live on the island where Nina lives. He cares a lot about his children.
Rick: Rick is a friend of Nina. He lives on the island with his wife and his son, Eamonn.
My reaction
I really enjoyed reading this book. It wasn’t too difficult and you just keep reading and reading until the last page. It’s making you curious… will Charlie ever return? This makes book very sensational and trilling! Sometimes it’s a bit long… Every conversation, every thought… But at the end of the book, you’ll notice that Nina needs every thought to save her daughter.
Explanation of the title
‘Losing you’, the title explains itself. Nina lost her daughter Charlie. She’s so worried and tries everything to find her. On a moment she thinks Charlie is dead, and is afraid she is losing her daughter forever.
When and where does the story take place
The whole story takes place on one day. It’s written in "the here and now". You are Nina. You hear everything she thinks, and everything she says.
Theme
You can describe the theme in one word; loss. Nina is losing her daughter and finds her in the end. Detect is another theme. Nina tries everything to find her daughter, the police is looking for things which can have anything to do with the disappearance of Charlie.
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