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Books : No Time For Goodbye

by: Linwood Barclay


Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780752893686 ISBN: 0752893688 Label: Orion Manufacturer: Orion Number Of Pages: 448 Publication Date: June 12, 2008 Publisher: Orion Sales Rank: 26 Studio: Orion	Average Rating: List Price: £7.99 Amazon.co.uk's Price: £3.86 You Save: £4.13 (52%) Prices subject to change.
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Editorial Review:

Review:
"a fast-moving roller-coaster of a read" (Emma Lee-Potter DAILY EXPRESS )

"Barclay's enjoyably creepy tale...certainly keeps one turning the pages" (TIMES )

Product Description:
On the morning she will never forget, suburban teenager Cynthia Archer awakes with a nasty hangover and a feeling she is going to have an even nastier confrontation with her mom and dad. But when she leaves her bedroom, she discovers the house is empty, with no sign of her parents or younger brother Todd. In the blink of an eye, without any explanation, her family has simply disappeared. Twenty-five years later Cynthia is still haunted by unanswered questions. Were her family murdered? If so, why was she spared? And if they're alive, why did they abandon her in such a cruel way? Now married with a daughter of her own, Cynthia fears that her new family will be taken from her just as her first one was. And so she agrees to take part in a TV documentary revisiting the case, in the hope that somebody somewhere will remember something - or even that her father, mother or brother might finally reach out to her... Then a letter arrives which makes no sense and yet chills Cynthia to the core. And soon she begins to realise that stirring up the past could be the worst mistake she has ever made...

Synopsis:
On the morning she will never forget, suburban teenager Cynthia Archer awakes with a nasty hangover and a feeling she is going to have an even nastier confrontation with her mom and dad. But when she leaves her bedroom, she discovers the house is empty, with no sign of her parents or younger brother Todd. In the blink of an eye, without any explanation, her family has simply disappeared. Twenty-five years later Cynthia is still haunted by unanswered questions. Were her family murdered? If so, why was she spared? And if they're alive, why did they abandon her in such a cruel way? Now married with a daughter of her own, Cynthia fears that her new family will be taken from her just as her first one was. And so she agrees to take part in a TV documentary revisiting the case, in the hope that somebody somewhere will remember something - or even that her father, mother or brother might finally reach out to her...Then a letter arrives which makes no sense and yet chills Cynthia to the core. And soon she begins to realise that stirring up the past could be the worst mistake she has ever made...

About the Author:
Linwood Barclay is married with two children and lives in Toronto. He has written a popular column for the Toronto Star since 1993.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- No time for anything else....
I couldn't put this book down. I really had no time for anything else whilst reading this.

A bit of a poor end to the story but a great read up till then. A real thought provoking plot with the story told from the husband's point of view, which made a nice change to the usual third person narration.

Highly recommended read chosen by Richard & Judy.

Rating:

- Schmaltzy Ending.
No Time For Goodbye

I have to say, I enjoyed this book immensly as a page-turning sun-bed read. My only real critisism is the last page. What a load of rubbish. You'd have to read the book to understand what I mean, but basically, we are supposed to believe that after her 14 year old daughter is dragged home stinking drunk after sneaking off out to 'go parking' with the local bad boy, the mother writes her a soppy letter all about how much she loves her, and that even after she (the ... Read More

Rating:

- Ehh...Where to start?
Don't waste your time on this, I gave up on it two-hundred and something pages in. Some of the main points:
>basically juvenile,
>predictible plot,
>Poorly Written,
>Obvious plot explanations in character dialogue...etc

This could be forgiven if you cared about the characters, or even what happens, sadly however, this is not the case.

Rating:

- A book written for TV Movie In Mind
No Time For Goodbye

The opening chapters get off to a great start, sadly followed by too much character explanation of emotions that have no real depth and frankly become less believable as time goes on, inevidably half way through not only do you know how it's all going to end, you can't help but feel you are immersed in a screenplay for a TV movie. As crime thillers go... this is pretty disappointing.

Rating:

- A great idea poorly executed
Most books have a beginning, a middle and an end. The high point of this novel turned out to be the beginning, which of course expanded on the intriguing premise of the story: a teenage girl wakes up to find her parents and brother missing, and like most readers (I assume) I wondered what on earth was going on. Then there was 'the middle', which in a nutshell was much too long because after perhaps 300 pages I was none the wiser as to the reasons behind the family's disappearance and apart from the ... Read More

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