The Sleepover

Name: The Sleepover
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Samantha King
ISBN: 9781696600644

Author: Samantha King

Narrator: Gemma Dawson

Unabridged: 9 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 06/30/2020

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Psychological

Synopsis

From the internationally bestselling author Samantha King, a gripping, emotional psychological thriller about a mother's worst nightmare . . . The Sleepover asks "Who would you trust to keep your child safe?"

It was meant to be the best night of her son's life . . . Was it his last?

Izzy is thrilled when her shy, twelve-year-old son is invited for his first sleepover. Nick has spent years being isolated and picked on; he deserves a night of fun and friendship. But Izzy is also nervous: it's a year to the day since bullies put Nick in the hospital. She drops him off at his new best friend's house with mixed feelings. Arriving to collect him the following morning, her worst fears come true . . . Nick isn't there. Who has taken her son? And will she ever get him back?

About Samantha King

Samantha King is a former editor and a qualified psychotherapist. After her childhood in the south west of England, teenage years spent in the north east and student days somewhere in between, she finally settled in west London where she enjoyed a career publishing other people's books, before going freelance and surrendering to a long time urge to write her own. She lives with her husband and two young children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Namita on July 06, 2020

Izzy is thrilled but nervous when her shy, 12-year-old son is invited for his first sleepover. Nick has been bullied mercilessly in the past and so Izzy had reservations about the sleepover but decided to give in .Arriving to pick him the following morning, her worst nightmare comes true as Nick is......more

Goodreads review by Ken on April 15, 2022

This was definitely one book where I was judging it by it's cover. A teddy bear left on the floor instantly conjured up thoughts of a little boy disappearing at say their grandparents house, instead the missing child is infact Twelve years old who'd stayed at a friend's house. The story focuses on Izz......more

Goodreads review by Carrie on June 29, 2020

Review coming soon.......more

Goodreads review by Linda on October 18, 2020

Izzy is a very protective mom. A year ago, her now 13 year old son, was bullied something awful from school and eventually was beaten up the first day he went to school by himself. They have both healed, but still wary, although they are now in a new school and Nick seems to be making friends. The la......more

Goodreads review by Collette on February 23, 2020

I really struggled to finish this book and have to say that it seemed to be marketed under the wrong genre. It was more a YA book I think. The mother was an unrealistic character and the situations she found herself in were just as unlikely If you are perhaps relaxing on a beach or want to while awa......more