Nicci Gerrard: Missing Persons (UK 2012)

From the Publisher:
'Later, everyone who loved Johnny Hopkins d different ways to describe how what ad ed their world.'

When Isabel's son Johnny goes to university, she is bereft.

Then Johnny stops returning phone calls. He doesn't reply to letters. When Johnny's father, Felix, rings the university, he finds out that Johnny is no longer there.

He's no longer anywhere.

But he must be somewhere - surely?

This is not Johnny's story. It's the story of his mother and father. His sisters. His friends. The people who love him. The people he's left behind.

It's a story about what we do when the unthinkable happens. It is also a story of coping, of hope - and of love.

Nicci Gerrard: Missing Persons. After you disappeared nothing was the same... Penguin, ISBN: 9780241950067 (May, 2012), 440 p., £7.99.