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What Happened to Lucy Vale
The twisty new mystery from bestselling author of BEFORE I FALL
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FROM THE NYT BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BEFORE I FALL When true-crime writer Rachel Vale and her daughter, Lucy, move into the abandoned Faraday House at the end of Lily Lane, they already know its tragic history... That's why they came. Rachel hopes that untangling the muddled...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of BEFORE I FALL, comes a spellbinding mystery of two mother-daughter relationships separated by time but intertwined by tragedy, told through a modern day Greek chorus of the residents of their small town.
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FROM THE NYT BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BEFORE I FALL
When true-crime writer Rachel Vale and her daughter, Lucy, move into the abandoned Faraday House at the end of Lily Lane, they already know its tragic history... That's why they came. Rachel hopes that untangling the muddled case of the Faradays might help her solve another puzzle: her daughter.
But the small Midwestern town of Granger remembers the Faradays, and the residents do not take well to strangers pulling apart their mysteries. They will do whatever it takes to protect their own.
As Rachel ignores the threatening notes on the doorstep and her daughter's increasingly erratic behaviour, she unwinds a case of old money, historic rivalries and online abuse. But soon it becomes clear that she might be investigating the wrong story after all...
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781473672758
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 September 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
Audience: Teenage
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 41g
Pages: 448
About the Author
Lauren Oliver is the author of YA novels Ringer, Replica, Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls and the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium and Requiem, which have been translated into more than thirty languages and are New York Times and international bestsellers. She is also the author of two standalone novels for middle-grade readers, The Spindlers and Liesl & Po, which was an E. B. White Read Aloud Award nominee; the Curiosity House series; and a novel for adults, Rooms. A graduate of the University of Chicago and NYU's MFA program, Lauren Oliver is also the co-founder of the boutique literary development company Glasstown Entertainment. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Find more information at www.laurenoliverbooks.com, or connect with Lauren on Twitter (/OliverBooks) and on Facebook (/laurenoliverbooks).Also by Lauren Oliver
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