Josy, a twelve year old girl, has an inexplicable illness and vanishes without trace from her doctor's office during treatment. Four years later: Josy's father, well-known psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, has withdrawn himself to an isolated North Sea island in order to deal with the tragedy. Until he's paid a surprise visit from a beautiful stranger. Anna Glass is a novelist and she suffers from an unusual form of schizophrenia: all the characters she creates for her books become real to her. And in her last novel she has written about a young girl with an unknown illness who has vanished without a trace.
Is the inconceivable possible? Do Anna's delusions describe Josy's last days? Reluctantly Viktor agrees to take on Anna's therapy in a last attempt to uncover the horrible truth behind his daughter's disappearance . . .
- ISBN10 0312382006
- ISBN13 9780312382001
- Publish Date 17 March 2009 (first published 1 August 2008)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St. Martin's Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 292
- Language English