{"id":4896,"date":"2013-08-01T11:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=4896"},"modified":"2013-08-01T11:00:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T16:00:49","slug":"staff-suggestion-close-my-eyes-sophie-mckenzie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=4896","title":{"rendered":"Staff Suggestion: Close My Eyes &#8211; Sophie McKenzie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/close-my-eyes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4947\" alt=\"close my eyes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/close-my-eyes.jpg?w=196\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/close-my-eyes.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/close-my-eyes-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a>About the book:<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_8_1_1_1375291270265_1314\">&#8220;<b id=\"yui_3_8_1_1_1375291270265_1315\"><i>Gone Girl<\/i>\u00a0meets\u00a0<i>Before I\u00a0Go to Sleep<\/i>\u00a0in Sophie McKenzie&#8217;s <i>Close My Eyes,<\/i> <em>a riveting psychological thriller about a grieving mother who finds out years after her daughter\u2019s death that her child may still be alive<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_8_1_1_1375291270265_1294\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_8_1_1_1375291270265_1293\"><em>When Geniver Loxley lost her daughter at birth eight years ago, her world stopped\u2026 and never fully started again. Mothers with strollers still make her flinch; her love of writing has turned into a half-hearted teaching career; and she and her husband, Art, have slipped into the kind of rut that seems inescapable.<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_8_1_1_1375291270265_1295\"><em>But then a stranger shows up on their doorstep, telling Gen the very thing she\u2019s always wanted to hear: that her daughter Beth was not stillborn, but was taken away as a healthy infant and is still out there, somewhere, waiting to be found. It\u2019s insane, unbelievable. But why would anyone make that up? A fissure suddenly opens up in Gen\u2019s carefully reconstructed life, letting in a flood of unanswerable questions. Where is Beth now? Why is Art so reluctant to get involved? To save his wife from further hurt? Or is it something more sinister? And who can she trust to help her?<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_8_1_1_1375291270265_1313\"><em>Ignoring the warnings of her husband and friends, Gen begins to delve into the dark corners of her past, hopeful she\u2019ll find a clue to her daughter\u2019s whereabouts. But hope quickly turns into fear and paranoia, as she realizes that finding the answers might open the door to something even worse than not knowing. A truth that could steal everything she holds close \u2013 even her own life.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3323253?locg=1\">Check the NOBLE catalog for availability<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the book: &#8220;Gone Girl\u00a0meets\u00a0Before I\u00a0Go to Sleep\u00a0in Sophie McKenzie&#8217;s Close My Eyes, a riveting psychological thriller about a grieving mother who finds out years after her daughter\u2019s death that her child may still be alive When Geniver Loxley lost her daughter at birth eight years ago, her world stopped\u2026 and never fully started again.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staff-picks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-1gY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}