Finding Grace
A Novel
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- £6.49
Publisher Description
A young girl is in terrible danger … but can they reach her in time?
Somebody’s coming for you
California: Twelve-year-old Melanie has been in foster care her whole life, moving from home to home—unloved and unwanted. And although she has found relative contentment with her current foster parents, Melanie harbors a secret that, if discovered, would blow her world apart. Someone talks to Melanie, a presence no one else can see or hear, and this presence has a message for her: something bad is about to happen.
New York: After years of battling with her troubled, unpredictable mother, Louise has managed to find peace in her solitary existence. Until the day Grace crashes back into her life and entreats Louise to help her save a child from imminent danger. Unwilling to get caught up in her mother’s madness, Louise resists. But she realizes the only way to be rid of Grace once and for all is to play along.
Louise and Grace set off across America in search of Melanie, driven by Grace’s firm belief that they have to get there before the bad thing happens. To do that, Louise must first come to understand and trust her mother. But after a lifetime of pain and dysfunction, can the two finally heal old wounds in order to save one young girl?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of this engrossing paranormal thriller from Thomas (All That's Left of Me), 33-year-old New York bartender Louise learns that her chronically unstable mother, Grace, is at Bellevue Hospital after being found singing to herself on the George Washington Bridge. Against her better judgment, Louise decides to pick up Grace and let her estranged mother stay at her apartment. Grace warns Louise that a young girl they both know is in grave danger, and they must drive across the country to save her. Jaded by years of her mother's shenanigans, Louise reluctantly agrees to head for California, where 12-year-old Melanie, who lives with her fourth set of foster parents, fears she's at risk of losing them after an entity that nobody else can hear or see warns her that something bad is about to happen. Thomas keeps the reader guessing what's going on as she shifts between the perspectives of Louise, Grace, and Melanie en route to the touching, bittersweet ending. Flashbacks to Louise's youth movingly explore mother-daughter relationships. Those who value character-driven suspense will be rewarded.
