The Missing Girl – Staff Pick!
The Missing Girl – Kerry McGinnnis
A phone call from Woodfell House, a nursing home in Glenfield, threw Meg momentarily. The caller Susan Pickering was the manager, “Can you manage a visit tomorrow, it is about your grandmother, she is wanting to see you?”
Mrs. Ellie Chapman is Meg Morrisey’s grandmother. A grandmother that had made life hell from the day Meg started to live with her and her grand father (deceased), who was a control freak, and it had to be his way or no way.
Ellie was dying and needed Meg to pack up her house and sell it. Each room held bad memories for Meg, with determination and help from her neighbour Betty Roberts, the gardener, and the solicitor they find clues to the reason her grandmother was the bitter person she had become.
This story is so clear why you should follow your heart and not the money. Money brings it’s own problems, don’t get me wrong it can buy you lots of things, but in this case it just caused heartbreak, bitterness, death and lies. In the end, Meg chose who she wanted to be, and the people she wanted to spend the rest of her life with, and the money didn’t feature in her future at all.
– Chris, Wandoan Library
The Missing Girl – Kerry McGinnis
The darkest secrets are buried the deepest.
Meg Morrissey has just lost her job and her partner to an overseas assignment. Then she is called back to the family home of Hunters Reach in the picturesque Adelaide Hills. Her ailing grandmother, who raised her when she was orphaned as a child, has always been a formidable figure in her life and this is hardly a welcome summons. When Meg arrives at the ramshackle old homestead, she learns that the place is up for sale. She is expected to care for the property with its extensive garden, while packing up the contents of the house.
As she begins the arduous work of bringing the grand old homestead back to its former glory, she is forced to examine the question that has plagued her all her life. Why did nobody loved her as a child? As the house unfolds the history of an earlier age, it also spills out secrets Meg had never imagined. In particular, the discovery of an aunt she never knew, her mother’s twin sister, Iris. The discovery brings horror in its wake, as Meg learns the secrets of the missing girl and the truth behind a wicked heart where love simply never existed. The more she uncovers, the more questions she has. With her grandmother unwilling to share what she knows, Meg must seek out the truth for herself.