Martha ✓

[a tense teen mystery set in the 1960s, wattys shortlist 2022]

When Ellie was three years old, her two older sisters went missing, kidnapped from outside their primary school. She's used to living in their shadow, over-protected by her paranoid parents and a village full of secrets. But now that she's seventeen, she wants some of her freedom back - that's the plan, anyway.

Until, in the autumn of 1968, her older sister Martha reappears, fourteen years after she was last seen. Where has she been all this time? Who took her? How did she manage to escape? No one seems to be asking the most important questions... They're just so glad that she's back, safe.

No one but Ellie senses that something is wrong with Martha.

That something is very, very wrong with Martha.

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