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Things Don’t Break On Their Own

bySarah Easter Collins, Christina Cole (Read by), Nathalie Buscombe (Read by), Emily Lucienne (Read by)

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She could be anyone. She could be you.


Nobody ever found out what happened to Laika Martenwood, the girl who vanished without a trace on her way to school one morning. But for her sister Willa, life shattered into tiny pieces that day, and she has never been able to put them back together again.


Willa sees Laika everywhere: on buses, at parties, in busy streets. It’s been twenty-five years, and the only thing that has kept her going is her belief that her sister is alive, somewhere.


But when a dinner party conversation about childhood memories spirals out of control, a shattering revelation from one of the guests forces Willa to rethink everything she thought she knew about her past. And, out of the debris of that explosive evening, the truth of what really happened begins to emerge. Piece by piece.

'This is the one: the next must-read, must-discuss novel' A.J. FINN
'A terrific debut from a promising talent' KARIN SLAUGHTER
'I will be thinking about it for years ... I loved it' GILLIAN McALLISTER

©2024 Sarah Easter Collins (P)2024 Penguin Audio

A captivating, haunting, and twisty story that explores the nature of loss and trauma, and the tricks that our memories play on us. A terrific debut from a promising talent

Karin Slaughter, New York Times and #1 International Bestselling author

About Sarah Easter Collins

Sarah Easter Collins grew up in Kent and studied at Exeter University before moving to Botswana, and later Thailand and Malawi. She now lives on Exmoor with her husband, son and two dogs. She is a graduate of the Curtis Brown creative novel-writing course and holds a diploma in creative writing from Oxford University. When not writing, she works as an artist. Things Don’t Break on Their Own is her first novel.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9781405964579
  • Length: 587 minutes
  • Price: £14.00
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