{"product_id":"the-day-i-lost-you-a-novel-isbn-9780063454101","title":"The Day I Lost You: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe internationally bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Woman on the Ledge\u003c\/em\u003e returns with a twisty thriller about a missing child and three adults whose shared secrets and hidden history could prove deadly.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“I need to report a crime. My baby has been stolen.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll Lauren wants is a new life in Spain. She’s suffered an unimaginable loss, but at last she has found a home in the pretty seaside town of Mantilla de Mar. Everyone deserves a new start, and Lauren needs to put her past firmly behind her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHope has everything: an interesting career as a therapist, an attractive husband, a dream home in the countryside - and, finally, the baby she always longed for. Sam. Her beautiful boy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Sam has gone missing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo when the police tell her that a woman has been found in Spain with a child matching Sam’s description, Hope thinks that her nightmare might be coming to an end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Lauren is insisting Sam is her baby. She even has his passport and birth certificate to prove it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo what \u003cem\u003ereally \u003c\/em\u003ehappened to Baby Sam? And who still has secrets to hide?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne child. Two mothers. And a past that won’t let them go.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Mancini’s twisty and twisted tale unspools in a pinwheeling narrative . . . . catapulting to a [an] undeniably gratifying finale. . . . readers will race through this.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With multiple (and mostly unreliable) narrators and a story told in reverse, this is a unique mystery. Readers may think they know what’s going on, but Mancini (\u003ci\u003eThe Woman on the Ledge\u003c\/i\u003e, 2024) will introduce a twist at just the right moment, making readers question everything they’ve read so far. The decision to start the story at the end is clever, . . . .mystery fans will enjoy this twisty thriller.” \u003cb\u003e– \u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e”\u003ci\u003eThe Day I Lost You\u003c\/i\u003e is an ingeniously constructed mystery that lays bare the lengths to which a mother’s love will drive her . . . this is a book well worth reading.” — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eManhattan Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is an intense, twisty novel that you think you know what is going on, and then bam, a new twist. A perfect end-of-the-year novel for your reading pleasure.” – \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed Carpet Crash\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ruth Mancini’s \u003ci\u003eThe Day I Lost You\u003c\/i\u003e is a taut, emotionally charged psychological thriller that explores motherhood, grief, and the thin line between truth and delusion. It’s the kind of novel that keeps you second-guessing every chapter, and just when you think you’ve figured it out, you haven’t.\" – \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCrimespree Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Day I Lost You\u003c\/i\u003e is a layered, thought-provoking domestic thriller perfect for readers who crave moral complexity, emotional tension, and stories where the truth has consequences no one can escape.\" — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWrite on the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fresh, original, utterly intriguing and so, so clever. I don’t think I’ve ever turned pages faster to try to find out what was going on! I loved it.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrea Mara, internationally bestselling author of It Should Have Been You and Someone in the Attic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A clever, compelling rollercoaster ride of a book, never letting up until its final resolution. The kind of novel that will have you thinking about the moral and ethical implications of a crime long after you've finished. Ruth Mancini is like a British Jodi Piccoult.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJennie Godfrey, Sunday Times bestselling author of The List of Suspicious Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Taut, tense and thought provoking, The Day I Lost You is a propulsive, emotional thriller about love and loss and the lengths people will go to protect themselves, or others. I flew through it, changing my mind every few pages about whose side I was on, whilst concocting theories as to what had happened. It was a hugely satisfying read.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eC.L. Taylor, Sunday Times bestselling author of Every Move You Make and The Guilty Couple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ruth Mancini has done it again. Smart, twisty and propulsive, \u003cem\u003eThe Day I Lost You \u003c\/em\u003ehas all the elements of a great psych thriller expertly woven together by Mancini’s legal knowledge which cranks it up to ten!\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarriet Tyce, author of A Lesson in Cruelty and It Ends at Midnight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If you thought Ruth Mancini couldn't top \u003cem\u003eThe Woman on the Ledge \u003c\/em\u003ethink again…\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSabine Durrant, author of Sun Damage and Finders, Keepers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This one really packs an emotional punch. Thought-provoking, compelling and, at times, heart-breaking. Really kept me guessing, right up until the end.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnna Mazzola, author of The Book of Secrets and The Clockwork Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ruth Mancini is fast becoming a master of the thriller genre—\u003cem\u003eThe Day I Lost You\u003c\/em\u003e is a whirlwind of delicious confusion with everything coming sharply into focus at the end. So clever and engaging. I loved it.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaura Pearson, internationally bestselling author of The Last List of Mabel Beaumont\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Woman on the Ledge\u003c\/em\u003e blew me away like \u003cem\u003eThe Girl on the Train\u003c\/em\u003e blew me away nearly ten years ago. Compulsive, clever and gasp out loud twisty, I absolute loved it.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLisa Jewell, author of None of This Is True on The Woman on the Ledge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wonderfully twisty, fabulously unexpected and immensely satisfying.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlex Marwood, author of The Island of Lost Girls, on The Woman on the Ledge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The best kind of plot-twisty structure where the writing itself becomes part of the intrigue. I devoured it!\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSabine Durrant, author of Sun Damage, on The Woman on the Ledge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Breathtaking storytelling. Every time you think you know what's happening you realise you're wrong. Stunning.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJane Fallon on The Woman on the Ledge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A thrill-ride of a novel—dark, riveting and twisty. \u003cem\u003eThe Woman on the Ledge\u003c\/em\u003e is one to devour!\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLucy Clarke, author of One of the Girls, on The Woman on the Ledge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A fiendishly clever revenge thriller in which absolutely nothing is what it first appears. . . . Several masterpieces of misdirection, and a propulsive plot with twists and turns galore, this is utterly gripping from first to last. I guarantee you’ll be absolutely hooked.’\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian on The Woman on the Ledge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48588053840101,"sku":"NP9780063454101","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-day-i-lost-you-a-novel-isbn-9780063454101","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}