I'd like to thank NetGalley for the copy of the book. Very good plot, kept me awake til morning hours. A bit predictable for me (or maybe I've read too many novels of that kind). Overally - a good book I'd recommend if you like thrillers about abducted children. I'd read another book of the author if had a chance.

Now you see her

An excellent psychological thriller with lots of twists and turns. Kept me gripped throughout. Highly recommended.

Thank you for the opportunity to read this book. I was captivated from the very first chapter. This story is no doubt the best I’ve read so far. The storyline was great. The plot the twists right down to the characters was brilliant. Definately a 5star book. I will definately recommend this one.

This was quite gripping and there were some interesting surprises - twists is too strong a word. The characters were quite believable, and the sinister husband was particularly chilling. The missing child scenario was handled well but the plot didn't really develop until two thirds of the way through so I got a bit bored and almost didn't continue. However, it picked up to a dramatic denouement and the conclusion was satisfactory.
(N.B. Chesil beach is spelt wrongly as Chessel.)

I was really looking forward to reading this and it didn't disappoint! Really good story that made me really connect with poor Harriet, the love she had for her daughter Alice was so obvious and the need to protect her from her bully of her husband. I think the pace of the book was really good and the plot was very gripping, I will deffinatly be recommending this one!

Fantastic story, with a lot of gripping twists and turns. Believable characters, with a perfect amount of emotional intensity to fit the storyline. Written in a style that was easy to read, yet full of descriptive scene setting. I couldn't wait to get to the end of the book to see how everything concluded. All in all a very enjoyable read which had me hooked from the beginning. I will be looking out for more from this author

A twisty turny tale that could happen to us all. You look after your friend's child as a favour but things don't turn out the way you though they would when you agreed. A vanished child, two devastated parents and a Mother who thought she was helping vilified for looking at her phone whilst the little girl disappeared If, like me, your'e a fan of a thriller with a twist then this book is definitely for you. Just whose side are you on? I will definitely be looking for more books by this author. Thanks to NetGalley for an advanced copy..

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Linda Wilson's review
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really liked it




I really enjoyed this book. Charlotte looks after her friend Harriet's little girl, but while at a school fete, the child, Alice, disappears. Despite an extensive police search, she is still missing a couple of weeks later, now believed to have been abducted. Charlotte is vilified for not looking after Alice properly, and we start to get an insight in to the relationship between Harriet and her husband, Brian. This is a fast paced story with a number of twists and turns. Thanks to NetGalley for a preview copy.

Sometimes you pick up a book that you instantly want to start talking about. Now You See Her is that book. I can see this being a controversial book club pick all over the country this year. Every Mum or Dad that picks up their child’s friends and takes them to football/ballet/gymnastics etc. will be thinking twice and wondering why they are so uneasy.

Harriet and Charlotte are good friends. Harriet’s daughter Alice is quiet and shy but gets on well with Charlotte’s boisterous three children. When Harriet decides to do a book keeping course as part of a first step to going back to work Charlotte agrees to babysit and takes Alice along to the school fete with her own kids.

When the three older kids all decide to go on a ride at the fete they are out of Charlotte’s sight for just a couple of minutes but that is all it takes and Alice has disappeared. A police search has quickly been instigated but the little girl has vanished. Charlotte is devastated and Harriet refuses to talk to her.

Friends start to rearrange their children’s car-share and playdates and the press has decided that Charlotte is a bad mother for being on Facebook on her phone while the drama unfolded. Feeling guilty and isolated Charlotte’s well ordered life is falling apart.

Now You See Heris a gripping thriller with a shocking twist. Two weeks after the abduction Charlotte and Harriet are both being questioned by the police. Secrets are about to come out but now that someone has died things are a whole lot more serious. What really happened and where is Alice? You won’t be able to put this book down!

Supplied by Net Galley and Random House UK in exchange for an honest review.

Surely every parents' nightmare, you entrust your child to someone else's care and the worst happens. So how does a friendship survivie this? Can it? Charlotte had to endure the villification of commentators on social media and the press. She was a popular personbut even that did not insulate her from censure. The stricken parents evoke our sympathy but is all as it seems? Harriet is secretive and those secrets both hinder and save her. A bold solution to a terrifying situation is devised , but all does not go to plan. Can there be a good outcome?
A good story with twists and turns and revelations, I couldn't put it down.

I really loved this book, fast paced, with plenty of twists and turns. The characters were very well described, and you could see how the story unfolded from that of a mother, who would do anything to protect her child, and the wife who was struggling to believe in herself and not doubt who and what she was. How her friendships with other people in her life were tested to the limits, and maybe beyond. Good book.

Gripping. I had to read until I discovered the outcome. A great read.

I whizzed through this in a matter of hours! Two friends, Charlotte and Harriet, are at the fête at their children's' school. The weather is hot, and people are in good spirits and having fun. Then, one of the children goes missing.....

Told in alternate points of view set both before and after the event, the story plays out in a series of plot twists and turns as This is the first book I have ever listened to by Heidi Perks, and her writing is flawless, It took me back to fêtes at my own school, tugging at my memories of happy moments during childhood one minute and shocking me the next.

Heidi takes us deep into the bodies and minds of the characters. We feel their pain. worry and fear. We see their happiness. Now You See Her is a harrowing, emotionally-charged thriller, and poses the questions who can we really trust? How much can we really know and rely on friends? It begs the question: how would you cope if the unimaginable happened?

The plot is very realistic, after all, who hasn't been to an event in a public place with young children? Yes, the idea is a simple one, but what made the difference between this and other thrillers for me was that Heidi Perks has taken a setting and experience we are all aware could. and does. happen and put her heart and soul into the representation of that scene and everything that came before and after the
moment that ripped one mother's world apart and made her question everything and everyone she knew, including her close friend.

I was absolutely riveted by this book! I didm't want it to end. The book deserves more than 5 stars. Huge thanks to Heidi Perks and Penguin Random House for my ARC in exchange for an honest and voluntary review. I was also privileged to see 2 cover designs for this book, both of which were eye-catching given the book's plot and title. These grabbed my attention immediately, and they really compliment this must-read title. If you do not read another thriller this year, read this- you won't regret it!

The only thing worse than losing someone else’s child is losing your own child. You already have the burden of responsibility of your own child, but having the extra pressure of keeping someone else’s child safe is a whole different level of responsibility.

Charlotte is Harriet’s only friend, she is isolated and reclusive. She has also never left her daughter Alice alone with anyone before, which makes it even more tragic when Alice vanishes into thin air at a school fete.

Charlotte is faced with the negative opinions of her circle of friends and strangers. She was distracted, she wasn’t paying attention and Alice did disappear on her watch. So the blame is being placed firmly on her shoulders. Now her so-called friends don’t want to entrust their children to her care in case something happens, again.

Perks takes an awful scenario and turns it into something more insidious. Can one justify doing the worst possible thing to try and protect a loved one? All whilst dragging someone else under the mud and watching them suffocate, as you try and achieve your own goal.

Now You See Her might make you question your sympathy for the main characters, which is the essence of this premise. Perks asks her readers to think about crossing lines and being ruthless. When is it too much and when is an attempt to save your child unforgivable? You might be surprised by this premise and the conclusion you come to. Personally I’m not sure I would have been so forgiving.

I am in two minds about this book and recommend readers to stick with it. In the first part,I was put off by the storyline of a missing child that is hardly original. Then it began to be more intriguing as the mother's controlling husband took a more important role in the story. Then there are unexpected twists which are good to read even if they are hard to believe. The whole book also takes a bit longer to tell than is sustainable.

This is the first novel I have read by Heidi Perks and it was excellent.

A ‘friendship’ between Charlotte and Harriet is the theme throughout the novel although most of the time they are not friends because Charlotte manages to let Harriet’s daughter, Alice, out of her sight at a local fete and she disappears.

Charlotte is riddled with guilt and to make matters worse most of her so-called friends start to ignore her and almost accuse her of being at fault when it comes to light she had been posting on Facebook at the time of the disappearance.

Cleverly plotted with several twists and turns, the reader can see how Harriet’s husband is manipulating her to the extent she almost believes she is losing her mind herself.

The story unfolds through the police interviews and the individual stories to the conclusion, which was realistically written without pulling any punches.

Thank you to NetGalley, Random House UK, Cornerstone Century and Heidi Perks for my free copy in return for my honest review.

Brilliant Read. Highly recommended.

When read about this book I saw it was billed as the ‘Book of the Summer’, I raised an eyebrow at this but,quite simply it should and think will be!
It is a story of two friends, one looks after the others 4 year old girl for the day and takes her with her family to the village fete....the child disappears.....and that is as much of the story as will ‘go into’ to do more would be to give the story away....you are left with the 2 friends, Charlotte and Harriett and you will take a side, sympathise with one and blame the other...then you will change your mind.....and change it again!!!!!
It is a fascinating book, superbly written and compulsive, I finished it within 24 hours, the need to find out the actual truth was great, and when I did and it became apparent just what had ‘ gone on’ it was a shock, a real shock, the ‘twist’ is a 10/10 and I hadn’t even considered it
There are some humorous moments within this largely dark and at times terrifying book and your emotions will run high reading it
As we saw ‘if you like Girl on the Train then you will love this’ on many books I expect to see ‘If you loved Now You See Her’ on many books after this is released and raved about
I could go on and on but wont 😃 but it truly is a wonderful book
10/10 5 stars

I would like to thank Penguin Random House UK and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘Now You See Her’ by Heidi Perks in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.
Charlotte lives with her children Jack, Molly and Evie in the sleepy Dorset village of Chiddenford. When her best friend Harriet asks her to look after four-year-old Alice while she attends an accountancy training class Charlotte is happy to help and takes all four children to the local school fete. Charlotte waits while Jack, Molly and Alice are on the ‘Jungle Run’ and takes a quick look at her phone. but although her own two children return Alice has disappeared. Charlotte starts searching but Alice is nowhere to be found.
‘Now You See Her’ is an exceptionally well-written psychological thriller, tense, dramatic and full of suspense, with a clever plot that’s every mother’s nightmare. It has believable characters, lots of action and so many unexpected twists that I didn’t dare stop reading for fear of missing a clue. I thoroughly enjoyed it and will certainly look out for Heidi’s first novel.

How do I even start? This book was one of the best books I've ever read. The more pages I turned and the story unfolded, the more gripped I became and didn't want it to end. Heidi is a brilliant author who allows the reader to become very attached to both Charlotte and Harriet, and of course little Alice. By the same token Heidi also can make us have so much loathe for Brian. Highly highly recommend this book, I wish I could forget it and read it again.

With the style of writing being told in different voices and time frames, the author can afford to get to the point of event ie the abduction really early in the book. This captures you as a reader very quickly. I could then not stop reading and finished the book in less than a day. The pace is good, not wasting time or words to keep you on track with the characters through out. The twists in the story are great and the conclusion not sugary sweet. I highly recommend this book and can see it as a script for TV or film.