GIVEAWAY – WIN A SIGNED COPY

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1. I remember someone once telling me that you know it’s cold when you see a lawyer with his hands in his own pockets.

2. I am not the most important person in this story. That honour belongs to Meg who is married to Jack and they are the perfect parents of two perfect children, a boy and girl, blond and blue-eyed and sweeter than honey cakes. Meg is pregnant again and I couldn’t be more excited because I’m having a baby too.

3. Audie Palmer had never learned how to swim. As a boy when he went fishing with his father on Lake Conroe he was told that being a strong swimmer was dangerous because it gave a person a false sense of security. Most folks drowned because they struck out for shore thinking they could save themselves while those who survived were found clinging to the wreckage.

4. ‘Which one is she?’ I ask, leaning closer to the observation window. ‘Blonde. Baggy sweater. Sitting on her own.’ ‘And you’re not going to tell me why I’m here?’ ‘I don’t want to influence your decision.’ ‘What am I deciding?’ ‘Just watch her.’

5. My name is Piper Hadley and I went missing on the last Saturday of the summer holidays three years ago. I didn’t disappear completely and I didn’t run away, which is what a lot of people thought (those who didn't believe I was dead).

6. If I could tell you one thing about my brother, it would be this. Two days after his nineteenth birthday, he killed our parents and our twin sisters because he heard voices in his head. As defining events go, nothing else comes close for Elias, or for me.

7. From the pitched slate roof of the Royal Marsden Hospital, if you look between the chimney pots and TV aerials, you see more chimney pots and TV aerials. It’s like that scene from Mary Poppins where all the chimneysweeps dance across the rooftops twirling their brooms.