One Puzzling Afternoon, Emily Critchley
One Puzzling Afternoon, Emily Critchley
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One Puzzling Afternoon

Author: Emily Critchley

Narrator: Elizabeth Sastre

Unabridged: 10 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/10/2023


Synopsis

I kept your secret, Lucy.

I’ve kept it for more than sixty years …

It is 1951, and at number six Sycamore Street, fifteen-year-old Edie Green is lonely. Living with her eccentric mother and her mother’s new boyfriend, she is desperate for something to shake her from her dull, isolated life.

So when the popular, pretty Lucy Theddle befriends Edie, she thinks all her troubles are over. Even though Lucy has a secret, one Edie is not certain she should keep.

Then Lucy goes missing.

Now in 2018, Edie is eighty-two and still living in the same small town when one afternoon, she glimpses Lucy Theddle, still looking the same as she did at fifteen.

Her family writes it off as one of her many mix-ups—there’s a lot Edie gets confused about these days. But Edie knows she’s the key to finding Lucy.

Time is running out, and Edie must piece together the clues before Lucy is forgotten forever.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Pheadra on November 12, 2024

All my book reviews are posted on Goodreads and Amazon.com. However, on the rare occasion that a brilliant book passes my way, I feel it needs to be lauded and promoted wherever possible. Here is my review of One Puzzling Afternoon by Emily Critchley. I read this through my online book club, Pigeonhol......more

Goodreads review by Melissa (Semi-hiatus for Work) on April 23, 2024

Book Club read for April. This book was different than I was anticipating. I thought it was going to be a missing person mystery, but in reality it was more along the line of Elizabeth Is Missing. Set in two timelines, 1951 and 2018. In 1951, by pure chance, teenagers Edie and Lucy become friends. Edie......more

This was really enjoyable! A mystery done in a dual timeline, as you try to unravel what happened to Edie's school friend Lucy. The dual timeline was really well done, each chapter gives you another clue. Some scenes made my heart clench- the seances and the ending! Really powerful read.......more

Goodreads review by Miriam on May 24, 2023

What a wonderful storyteller debut author Emily Critchley is! “One Puzzling Afternoon” is beautifully written with endearing characters and a heartwarming, sentimental storyline. I was drawn into the book instantly and fell immediately in love with Edie. The tenderness Emily portrayed eighty-four ye......more

Goodreads review by Maxine on November 04, 2023

2018 - Edie has started losing bits of memory, a word here, a name there, why she is in the kitchen and did she eat breakfast. But even as she loses more and more of these moments, her memories of the day her best friend, Lucy, disappeared 67 years ago begin to return after she is sure she sees her......more