Brand new thriller from novelist Brian McGilloway out from Little Brown Group
McGilloway returns following last year's excellent BLOOD TIES with another standalone novel, this time focusing on the disappearance of a daughter from her small Northern Irish village, leaving her Mum distraught at the thought she may have been abducted and subsequently murdered.
McGilloway is a writer of high intellect and all his novels are paced so well. In this novel it is written from the point of view of the mother Pandora, we follow her as we find out about the daughter, Ellie, missing and then the investigations by police before news comes to shake her to her core; from the dissolution of her marriage to the loss of friendships. The plot tells us as much about instant coverage of media and calls to mind other abduction scandals that have hit the headlines in this social media age, for example, Shannon Matthews.
Written with clarity and precision, McGilloway does not disappoint again with his new work, at times gut wrenching in the emotional pull of the narrative, the depiction of walking grief for Pandora is so brilliantly handled you can only hope the book reaches a wider audience.
THE EMPTY ROOM is available now on all formats.
Thanks to the author for arranging a review copy.
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