The Lost Girls of Devon

by Barbara O'Neal

Overview

One of Travel + Leisure’s most anticipated books of summer 2020.

From the Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids comes a story of four generations of women grappling with family betrayals and long-buried secrets.

It’s been years since Zoe Fairchild has been to the small Devon village of her birth, but the wounds she suffered there still ache. When she learns that her old friend and grandmother’s caretaker has gone missing, Zoe and her fifteen-year-old daughter return to England to help.

Zoe dreads seeing her estranged mother, who left when Zoe was seven to travel the world. As the four generations of women reunite, the emotional pain of the past is awakened. And to complicate matters further, Zoe must also confront the ex-boyfriend she betrayed many years before.

Anxieties spike when tragedy befalls another woman in the village. As the mystery turns more sinister, new grief melds with old betrayal. Now the four Fairchild women will be tested in ways they couldn’t imagine as they contend with dangers within and without, desperate to heal themselves and their relationships with each other.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781542020725
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	07/14/2020
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	289,525
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Barbara O’Neal is the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Amazon Charts bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including When We Believed in Mermaids, The Art of Inheriting Secrets, and How to Bake a Perfect Life. She lives in the beautiful city of Colorado Springs with her beloved—a British endurance athlete who vows he’ll never lose his accent.

To learn more about O’Neal and her works, visit her online at www.barbaraoneal.com.

Editorial Reviews

06/26/2020

Mystery writer Lillian Fairchild might be close to 90, but she's still observing the village life in Axestowe in Devon, England. What she's seeing now makes her uneasy, as does the disappearance of her home nurse, Diana. When Lillian's granddaughter Zoe learns Diana hasn't been heard from in two weeks, she and her teenage daughter, Isabel, come to stay with Lillian. Zoe feels guilty because she's only had superficial conversations with her once best friend after Diana betrayed her and befriended Zoe's mother, Poppy. While Poppy has made a home in Axestowe with her popular store, the Kitchen Witch, Zoe hasn't forgiven her mother for abandoning her with Lillian and never returning to reclaim her. Diana's disappearance, and the mystery of a murdered young woman on the beach unites four generations of the Fairchild women, though the heart of the story is the Fairchild women's search for love and understanding. VERDICT A woman's strange disappearance brings together four strong women who struggle with their relationships, despite their need for one another. Fans of Sarah Addison Allen will appreciate the emphasis on nature and these women's unique gifts in this latest by the author of When We Believed in Mermaids.—Lesa Holstine, Evansville Vanderburgh P.L., IN

Library Journal

The Lost Girls of Devon draws us into the lives of four generations of women as they come to terms with their relationships and a mysterious tragedy that brings them together. Written in exquisite prose with the added bonus of the small Devon village as a setting, Barbara O’Neal’s book will ensnare the reader from the first page, taking us on an emotional journey of love, loss, and betrayal.” —Rhys Bowen, New York Times and #1 Kindle bestselling author of The Tuscan Child, In Farleigh Field, and the Royal Spyness series

“The Lost Girls of Devon is one of those novels that grabs you at the beginning with its imagery and rich language and won’t let you go. Four generations of women deal with the pain and betrayal of the past, and Barbara O’Neal skillfully leads us to understand all of their deepest needs and fears. To read a Barbara O’Neal novel is to fall into a different world—a world of beauty and suspense, of tragedy and redemption. This one, like her others, is spellbinding.” —Maddie Dawson, bestselling author of A Happy Catastrophe

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