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While My Eyes Were Closed

By: Linda Green
Narrated by: Emma Gregory, Maggie Mash, Gareth Bennett-Ryan
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Dare you close your eyes for even a few seconds? One, two, three...

Lisa Dale shuts her eyes and counts to 100 during a game of hide-and-seek. When she opens them, her four-year-old daughter, Ella, is gone. Disappeared without a trace. The police, the media and Lisa's family all think they know who snatched Ella. But what if the person who took her isn't a stranger? What if they are convinced they are doing the right thing? And what if Lisa's little girl is in danger of disappearing forever?

©2016 Linda Green (P)2016 W F Howes Cosy Crime Thrillers Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Psychological Thriller & Suspense Thriller Exciting Scary Suspense

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Editor reviews

"Clever and compelling, While My Eyes Were Closed tells the story of the disappearance of a child in many different authentic voices. You feel the effect it has on all the characters, even the ones you're not sure you're supposed to feel sympathy for. This is brave story, which is touching right down to the final word. I so enjoyed this book." (Dorothy Koomson, Sunday Times top 10 best-selling author)
"A beautifully crafted novel of knife-edge suspense that held my attention to the very end. I wanted to compare the author to Gillian Flynn or Alice Sebold, but that wouldn't be right. This book is one 100 percent Linda Green, and Linda Green is bloody brilliant!" (Amanda Prowse, #1 best-selling author)
"The suspense becomes quite unbearable - and there's a final flourish in the form of a very punchy twist. A terrifyingly plausible story, that will have parents looking over their shoulders." (Sunday Mirror)
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Really gripping was engrossed from the first chapter.
A real in site into how your world can fall apart in a moments notice

such an amazing story

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Great story and great narration. Very sad in parts. Muriel understandably list her mind under the circumstances. My only criticism of seemed to end abruptly. I would like to have heard more about the consequences of Muriels actions. I would highly recommend this book and it will keep you listening. Not a boring bit in it..

Excellent

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really enjoyed this book. excellent listening. read well by all 3 readers. would recommend to sll

excellent read

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This book was well written and fantastically narrated but was too long, it would have been a fabulous short story but as a novel is just dragged. I loved the three narrators but found Muriel’s sections boring and I fast forwarded through much of it. The story is heart wrenching and believable but I felt it was too drawn out.

Well written but too long

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I was hooked immediately heart wrenching.
The narrators were amazing it was like watching a movie with your eyes closed. 5* I will be getting all the authors books if they're as good as this 😃

A mothers nightlmare

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I enjoyed it more than I expected good narration always helps would recommend it !

loved it

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I struggled to stick with this book as it was very drawn out. I did however enjoy the narrating. At times I did feel for the family listening to their fears and desperation while waiting to hear if their daughter is dead or a life.
I figured out the twist before it was revealed so I would say a little predictable. I will try this writer again but will take heed to the negative reviews.
I like a book to grip me from the get go, a book I can't put down because I'm desperate to find out what is happening etc....sadly this wasn't it!

Slow! didn't feel any anticipation or excitement

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I loved the storyline but it was quite slow to get started and then after waiting so long for a resolution it was pretty disappointing as there was hardly a minute dedicated to what you’d been waiting for the entire time.

Great potential but not as good as her other books

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Such a beautiful, moving and honest performance of loss, grief and forgiveness. Sad at times interlocked with dark comic moments. I loved how each of the characters' stories interlocked like pieces of a puzzle whilst unravelling the full overlapping story between the two families.

Have shares this with everyone I know!

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i wasn't keen on the accents. It was an easy read though, but not gripping.

easy read

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