Long Gone Anybody

Fresh and compelling tale of a young girl in pursuit of her runaway mother across America, by a highly imaginative debut novelist.

'This humane novel of a teenager desperately seeking her runaway mother has an edge and a sexiness that keeps you turning the pages'

Susannah Waters was born in England, spent the next twenty years in America, and then moved back to England. She was an opera singer for ten years, singing in some of the most beautiful opera houses in the world. She has written for the theatre as well as for singers, dancers and instrumentalists. This is her first novel. She is married to an actor, and has two children.

When you're running away from life, how far do you need to go...? 
 
A nineteen-year old runs away from her life and keeps on running. Haunted by the unexplained departure of her mother four years earlier, she is looking and not looking. Adopting one identity after another - female escort, apple-picker, cashier, canvas girl in a travelling circus - she is afraid to slow down for fear of what, or who, may catch up with her. When anonymous postcards start to arrive at every place she goes, she is finally forced to confront the fate of her long-gone mother. Can this runaway-girl escape the same end? 
 
In a compulsive and moving novel riddled with family secrets, a predictably happy ending is never a guarantee. But one thing becomes certain; people can only ever save themselves.

Susannah Waters

Two young people against the world . . . 
Tammy's kitchen table is tilting. 
 
Her house is sinking into the ground, and the sun just won't stop shining. 
 
But no one seems to notice. 
 
In Alaska, things are changing fast: the permafrost is melting, temperatures are soaring, and the snow doesn't come until Christmas. 
 
When Tammy's cousin George disappears, it is Tammy who discovers him, hiding away from the world. As their strange, erotic connection intensifies, it becomes clear that George is involved in something terrible and dangerous ... 
 
Susannah Waters' atmospheric tale of a young girl obsessed with the symptoms of global warming is set on a stunning landscape that highlights what we stand to lose. It tells of the passion between two young people who refuse to sit and watch the planet die.

Susannah Waters

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