A Kind of Vanishing

A child disappears. A woman grows up harbouring a terrible secret. Her daughter wants to know the truth. It's the summer of 1968, the day Senator Robert Kennedy is shot. Two nine-year-old girls, Eleanor Ramsey and Alice Howland, are playing hide and seek in the ruins of The Mills, a deserted village on the Sussex coast. When it is Eleanor's turn to hide, Alice disappears. This is a spellbinding mystery of obsession and guilt. It is also the poignant story of what happens to those left behind when a child vanishes without trace.