The Lost Children of Spindrift

August, 1976. The longest, hottest summer anyone could remember. No wonder families flocked to the golden beaches of East Anglia, where there was a breeze and where the chill of the North Sea was, for once, a welcome relief. If you were a child, it was the best summer ever…

Eve is already feeling under siege when the Norfolk police appear at her door. They’ve found new evidence in the disappearance of a father and son from a beach in a night storm fifty years ago. Blood on a t-shirt, and a connection to a seaside chalet called Spindrift where she and her sister Jude spent the summer, just before their mother put them into care and vanished from their lives.

Now Eve and her sister are going back to Spindrift, where everything went wrong, to see if the children they used to be can give some answers to the women they’ve become. What happened there, when the tension in their little house simmered as the thermometer rose, and more than one child was lost?

THE HOOK: August 1976, the hottest summer anyone could remember. A father and son vanished from a Norfolk beach. Fifty years later, police find blood on a T-shirt, and two sisters must go back to the chalet where everything went wrong.

DUAL TIMELINE: A cold, foggy present day and a sweltering 1970s summer by the sea.

AUTHOR: Zoe Manlow's first novel, The Last Secret of Wickham Grange, had rave reviews from readers and book bloggers.

FOR FANS OF: Kate Morton, Lucinda Riley and Rachel Hore.

"The Lost Children of Spindrift" was written by Zoe Manlow.

Zoe has spent 25 years working in education, but her heart has always really been in writing, with a particular love of stories about people who may not be who or what they seem. She studied Creative Writing as part of her degree with the Open University and during lockdown finally managed to get back into writing seriously. Originally from Kent, she now lives in London with her husband and their enormous dog.

"The Lost Children of Spindrift" will appeal to readers who enjoy books about Crime & mystery, Historical fiction and Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945).