Martha

A sixties-inspired mystery novel by Emma Smith, perfect for fans of Holly Jackson and Cat Clarke.

The year is 1968, and change is on the horizon...

When Ellie was three years old, her two older sisters were kidnapped. She's been used to living in their shadow, over-protected by her paranoid parents... but now that she's seventeen, she wants some of her freedom back. That's the plan, anyway.

Until 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.

And Ellie is the only person who wants to know why.

A young adult mystery tackling the pains of growing up, set deep in a crime scene on the bleak North York Moors.