One Puzzling Afternoon

by Emily Critchley Narrated by Elizabeth Sastre

Overview

I kept your secret, Lucy.
I've kept it for more than sixty years ...
It is 1951, and at number six Sycamore Street, fifteen-year-old Edie Green is lonely. Living with her eccentric mother and her mother's new boyfriend, she is desperate for something to shake her from her dull, isolated life.
So when the popular, pretty Lucy Theddle befriends Edie, she thinks all her troubles are over. Even though Lucy has a secret, one Edie is not certain she should keep.
Then Lucy goes missing.
Now in 2018, Edie is eighty-two and still living in the same small town when one afternoon, she glimpses Lucy Theddle, still looking the same as she did at fifteen.
Her family writes it off as one of her many mix-ups-there's a lot Edie gets confused about these days. But Edie knows she's the key to finding Lucy.
Time is running out, and Edie must piece together the clues before Lucy is forgotten forever.

Editorial Reviews

NOVEMBER 2023 - AudioFile

Narrator Elizabeth Sastre adopts a gentle voice for this complex, sometimes puzzling, mystery about the disappearance of Lucy Theddle in 1951. The story is told in 1982 by Edie Green, an octogenarian with aphasia and dementia who was Lucy's best friend. Aided by her intrepid, cheerful granddaughter, Amy, soft-voiced Edie follows sketchy clues plumbed from her memories. In alternating chapters, 15-year-old Edie recounts the events leading up to Lucy's disappearance. Sastre's tone rarely varies between Edie at 15 and Edie at 82, forcing listeners to pay close attention to the story's clues while remembering the current time frame and wondering what happened 30 years earlier. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940159678522
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	10/10/2023
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	1,142,356

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