{"product_id":"9781800488533-scarlet-dress-lp","title":"The Scarlet Dress","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe brilliant new novel from the bestselling author of The House By The Sea. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlice Lang was wearing her favourite scarlet dress when she disappeared twenty-five years ago, and her memory still casts a long shadow.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the long, hot summer of 1995, twenty-two-year-old Alice Lang rents a caravan on a holiday park on the outskirts of the lively holiday resort of Severn Sands. She befriends Marnie, a shy, damaged little girl whose father is the park's caretaker and whose mother died a few months earlier. Will, whose mother runs the bar, falls in love with Alice, and is unbearably jealous of anyone else she sees. Tensions rise until one evening Alice disappears from her caravan. She's never seen again, and only her scarlet dress is found washed up on the shore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA quarter of a century later, the town is run down and nobody comes there anymore. Mr and Mrs deVillars, former owners of the holiday park, have passed the failing business onto their son Guy, who promptly sells the land for development. Builders clearing the land to create an expanse of executive homes uncover human bones. It has to be Alice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWill and Marnie’s lives were entirely shaped by what happened that summer, and now Alice has been found, they must struggle to pin down their memories, to escape the secrets of the past, the lies they told and the unbearable guilt they're both carrying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThey need to find out what happened to Alice. Who killed her? And why?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Louise Douglas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Louise Douglas achieves the impossible and gets better with every book.' \u003cb\u003eMilly Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A brilliantly written, gripping, clever, compelling story, that I struggled to put down. The vivid descriptions, the evocative plot and the intrigue that Louise created, which had me constantly asking questions, made it a highly enjoyable, absolute treasure of a read.' \u003cb\u003eKim Nash on \u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Dress\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Another stunning read from the exceptionally talented Louise Douglas! I love the way in which Louise creates such an atmospheric mystery, building the intrigue and suspense brick by brick. Her writing is always beautiful and multi-layered, her characters warm and relatable and the intriguing nature of the mystery makes this unputdownable.’ \u003cb\u003eNicola Cornick \u003ci\u003eon The Scarlet Dress\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A tender, heart-breaking, page-turning read'\u003cb\u003eRachel Hore on \u003ci\u003eThe House by the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The perfect combination of page-turning thriller and deeply emotional family story. Superb’ \u003cb\u003eNicola Cornick \u003ci\u003eon The House by the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Kept me guessing until the last few pages and the explosive ending took my breath away.' \u003cb\u003eC.L. 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