Whistle in the Dark: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

Emma Healey follows the success of her #1 internationally bestselling debut book Elizabeth Is Missing, champion of the Costa First Novel Prize, with this beautiful, thought-provoking, and psychologically complex story that affirms her position among the most inventive and primary literary novelists today.

Jen and Hugh Maddox have just survived every parent’s most severe nightmare.

Relieved, but nonetheless terrified, they sit down by the hospital bedside of their fifteen-year-old daughter, Lana, who was found about Whistle at night: A Book bloodied, bruised, and disoriented after going lacking for four times during a mother-daughter holiday in the country. As Lana lies mute in the bed, unwilling or unable to articulate what occurred to her during that period, the national media speculates wildly and Jen and Hugh try to answer many queries.

Where was Lana? How did she get harm? Was the teenage boy who befriended her included? How do she survive outside for all people days? Even though she returns to the house and her school routine, Lana only supplies the same irritating answer over and over: ‘I can’t remember.’

For years, Jen had tried to soothe the depressive demons plaguing her younger kid, and had always dreaded the most severe. Now she has hope-the family has gone through hell and turn out the various other side. But Jen cannot let go of her have to find the truth. Without telling Hugh or their pregnant old little girl Meg, Jen sets off to retrace Lana’s measures, a journey which will lead her to a deeper knowledge of her youngest daughter, her family members, and herself.

A wry, poignant, and masterfully drawn story that explores the bonds and duress of family life, the discomfort of mental illness, as well as the fraught however enduring connection between mothers and daughters, Whistle at night is a story of guilt, dread, hope, and love that explores what it means to lose and discover ourselves and those we love.