The Year of Fog

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A profoundly moving and compelling literary mystery from the author of The Marriage Pact which will appeal to fans of Alice Sebold, Sophie Hannah and Jodi Picoult Life changes in an instant. On a foggy beach in San Francisco, Abby Mason - photographer, fiancee, soon-to-be-stepmother - looks away from six-year-old Emma for an instant. By the time she looks back, Emma has disappeared.Devastated by guilt, haunted by her fears about becoming a mother, Abby refuses to believe that Emma is dead. Now, as the days drag into weeks, as the police lose interest and fliers fade on telephone poles, Emma's father finds solace in religion. But Abby can only wander the beaches and city streets, attempting to recover the past and the little girl she lost.

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In just two novels (No One You Know was the first), Michelle Richmond has established herself as mistress of the kind of literary mystery which packs the punch of a fine thriller but with added insight and wisdom...Mesmerising and harrowing, this is not just a story about a missing child but about faith, the function of memory and the way life can completely turn around in an instant. * Daily Mail *
Heartbreaking and riveting...beautifully written * Closer *
impossible to put down...Five Stars * News of the World *
A gripping tale of a woman's search for her fianc's missing daughter * People Magazine *
A breathtaking novel...magnetic. * Elle France *

Author Bio

Michelle Richmond is the New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Fog, No One You Know, and The Marriage Pact. Her award-winning stories and essays have appeared in Glimmer Train, Playboy, The Oxford American, and elsewhere. She has been a James Michener Fellow, and her fiction has received the Associated Writing Programs Award and the Mississippi Review Prize. A native of Mobile, Alabama, Michelle lives with her husband and son in San Francisco, where she is at work on her next novel.