This was a hard book to read. It was about a family dealing with disappearance of 4 year old Daniel from a school field trip to Legoland. The author knows full well how the news of the disappearance will affect the reader and teases out the full drama by first having another child turn up lost. Harry (the 9 year old narrator) is Daniel's older brother and you can feel the hot dread as he scans the bus looking for his little brother. When he finds him and cradles him, you fully realize the horror of possibly losing this child. They find the first kid and the bus stops for a bathroom break. It is here, that Daniel is lost.
The rest of the book is about how Harry and the rest of his family cope with the nightmare. His mother becomes untethered to sanity and his father moves out. Harry also becomes unhinged but seems to straighten somewhat. They simply have to face life knowing that this terrible thing will never ever go away. Daniel is never found and the book lets off at the end with this terrible knowledge.
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