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By: Alison Lyle
Narrated by: Sarah Kuklis
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A Gripping Psychological Thriller About a Missing Child and Buried Secrets

A daughter lost. A truth far darker.

Ten years ago, Rose vanished. Today, her mother swears she’s come home.

After a fire destroys the house where her toddler daughter disappeared, Julia and her family move into a creaking Victorian across town. To everyone else, it’s a fresh start. To Julia, it’s a sign.

Then—snow on the ground. Footprints leading to her front door. A glimpse of movement in the neighbor’s basement. And a name whispered into the winter air: Rose.

Her husband says she’s unraveling. Her children are embarrassed. The neighbors call her dangerous. But Julia knows what she saw. And she’ll risk her marriage, her sanity, and her freedom to prove that Rose is still alive.

Until the night the truth finally comes out—and it’s worse than anything she imagined.

Forgotten is a haunting psychological thriller about obsession, buried secrets, and the price of refusing to let go.

©2025 Alison Lyle (P)2026 Alison Lyle Domestic Thrillers Psychological Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction Marriage
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The author writes rich, vivid, visceral descriptions which immerse the reader in plot and main character. We are shown how a mother deep into grief for her toddler daughter who was abducted ten years previously, is still searching and yearning for signs of her missing child. We witness the effect this has had on her relationships with her husband and twin ten-year-olds. We also discover the ways others have reacted and treated our distressed mother over time. Action from the beginning with a home on fire forcing a move of this nuclear family to an older property in a different neighbourhood. Far from this being the anticipated fresh start, the grieving mother looks for more signs which will lead her to her missing daughter. There are several twists as secrets and lies are revealed with a dramatic underground climax. It's a compelling read and well-paced. It really drew me in and I was attached to the main character. I liked the twist in the epilogue leaving the reader to make their own inferences about next events.

The narrator not only conveyed the appropriate emotions, but was able to differentiate between male, female and child characters so making it easy to follow.

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Intense, emotional thriller with twists.

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I found this hard to listen to because of the timing of the events. The narration is A-OK but I was lost from the beginning with the timing of how things could have happened in that exact way.

I don't feel that Julia is a reliable narrator and that made me struggle to follow her thoughts and feelings.

I enjoyed other books by this author but this one left me a little cold and confused.

Hard to follow at times

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I had quite high expectations for this one as the description was intriguing but I found myself very frustrated.

The story is based around a family who suffer 2 big tragedies; their eldest daughter goes missing and then a house fire destroys their home, forcing them to move. It explores the mother's grief and her constant search for her daughter.

The storyline of the initial few chapters didn't really make sense to me and felt rushed. There is a house fire while they're out christmas shopping but they're in a new house with new furniture before Christmas.

I then felt like the story dragged on a bit and was fairly slow. There's a lot of repetition which I found frustrating and I very nearly gave up around halfway through.

I am glad that I did manage to stick it out as the twist towards the end was very really good and I definitely didn't expect it.

Overall, the second half slightly made up for the first half but I don't think I would recommend this.

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Tense, twisty thriller

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