Fall River by Meredith Miller

 

 

One young woman disappears as another returns. Alice has turned to the river looking to drown the voices in her head. Khadija has come home to uncover the terrible history hidden beneath its surface. The London train screeches by while the rest of the town is still asleep along the banks of the Tamar. They'll wake up that morning to find that everything, and nothing, has changed. Sooner or later, the river pulls them all. Sooner or later, someone falls...

 This was, for me, a strangely evocative novel. For someone who has never visited the area there was enough of a sense of place to "put me there" (I'm a very visual reader).

 In the small Cornish town of Saltash a 15 year old girl disappears, while at the same time her 25 year old cousin returns from a spell in London. The story follows events both before and after the disappearance and as Saltash is only a small town it feels like it covers the stories of all the people who live there. It's the kind of place where everybody knows everybody else's business (or at least they think they do) and outsiders are looked on with suspicion, even those coming back after a few years away.

 This felt like it could be a decent TV series as well as a cracking read and I would certainly recommend it - 4.5/5*

 Thank you to Anne Cater and Random Things Tours for inviting me onto this tour (and sorry for the delay in posting). Please see below for the other bloggers on the tour and give their posts a read if you can.