The Woman in the Wood : a missing teenager. An outcast woman in the woods. And a girl determined to find the truth. From The Sunday Times bestselling author

Discover the addictive and gripping novel from the bestselling author of Suspects , Lesley Pearse 'A roller-coaster of emotions that made me cry, laugh and be scared. I honestly couldn't stop reading this book' 5***** Reader Review 'Characters it is impossible not to care about . . . this is storytelling at its very best' Daily Mail 'I was sucked into the world of the twins from the first page and found myself holding my breath as the events unfolded' 5***** Reader Review _______ London, 1960. Living in the New Forest with their cold-hearted grandmother, twins Maisy and Duncan are neglected and unloved. So when Duncan fails to come home after exploring the woods, no one - least of all his grandmother - appears to care. Yet Maisy refuses to give up. Though she doesn't know the woods well, she knows someone who does. The strange old woman who lives at their heart . . . Dare Maisy enlist the help of the woman in the wood? And what will she find if she does? _______ 'A real page-turner, a family story that is multi-layered just as you'd expect from Lesley Pearse, who is deservedly one of the world's favourite story tellers' My Weekly 'A gripping novel' HELLO! Magazine Fifteen-year-old Maisy Mitcham and her twin brother Duncan lose their mother to an insane asylum one night in 1955. The twins are sent to their grandmother's country house, Nightingales. Cold and distant, she leaves them to their own devices, to explore and to grow. That is until the day Duncan doesn't come home from the woods. With their grandmother seeming to have little interest in her grandson's disappearance, and the police soon giving up hope, it is left to Maisy to discover the truth. And she will start with Grace Deville. A woman who lives alone in the wood, about whom rumours abound ... Fifteen-year-old twins Maisy and Duncan Mitcham have always had each other. Until the fateful day in the wood ... Sunday Express