The Girl in the Photo By Sam Carrington
Paperback published by Avon 20th July 2023
ISBN 9780008436414
Her child is missing. And she’d do anything to find her.
Every Friday Mercy Hamilton goes to the same supermarket. She doesn’t go to buy groceries, instead, she shows a fading photo of a little girl to anyone who’ll look begging for help to find her daughter.
One Friday, Erica Fielding comes across Mercy, and touched by her story, Erica agrees to help.
As Erica is drawn deeper and deeper into Mercy’s life, she discovers there is no record of Mercy’s daughter. In fact there’s no record of a child at all.
But who is the girl in the photo if not Mercy’s missing daughter? And what danger will Erica find herself in by pursuing the truth?
MY REVIEW
Top marks to Sam Carrington writing a unputdownable page-turning psychological drama novel.
Today I’m giving the psychological thriller, family drama The Girl In The Photo by Sam Carrington my biggest shout out for readers to read this next. I started off reading this psychological drama, with never even guessing the ending.
The one thing that makes this story so touching is I feel for a mother who has had a child, that goes missing.
I will never forget the time I was in my local shopping centre, when I see my best friends little girl wandering around on her own. I asked her where’s mummy? She told me she doesn’t know. Luckily she knew me as she often came into my house to play with my little girl. I took my friends daughter by the hand and looking for my friend, eventually I found my best friend, she said thank goodness that I had found her, she dared not think of what would have happened if I hadn’t of found my friends little girl.
Erica is documenting her IVF Journal on Instagram with lots of followers and comments.
A 3 year-old girl went missing while at Bateman’s with her mother on Friday at around 11am. The police came to a standstill while they searched the whole area.
While shopping in Bateman’s supermarket, Erica sees a little lost girl in a supermarket, crying for her mummy, she holds her hand, taking her to customer service.
While Erica is in a que at the till Mercy shows Erica a photo of her daughter Tia, asking her have you seen her? But the photo doesn’t look like the little girl who she has taken to customer service desk. Karen the check out lady tells Erica Mercy Hamilton, comes into the supermarket every Friday, showing a photo, of her daughter saying have you seen her?
When Erica is looking online she can’t find anything about a little girl missing outside Bateman’s supermarket.
Erica tries to help Mercy find her missing daughter. Mercy Hamilton seems to have the same nursery as what Erica has.
This remarkable story reflects mental health symptoms. According to the charity Mind, mental health problems effect around one in four people in any given year. One of the rarer of these dissociative identity disorder (DID ) is at the heart of The Girl In The Photo.
About author Sam Carrington
Sam Carrington lives in Devon with her husband, two border terriers and a cat. She has three adult children and a new grandson! She worked for the NHS for fifteen years, during which time she qualified as a nurse. Following the completion of a psychology degree she went to work for the prison service as an Offending Behaviour Programme Facilitator. Her experiences within this field inspired her writing. She left the service to spend time with her family and to follow her dream of being a novelist. SAVING SOPHIE, her debut psychological thriller, published in September 2016. It became a Kindle eBook bestseller, with the paperback hitting The Bookseller Heatseeker chart at #8. Sam was named an Amazon Rising Star of 2016.
Her 6th book – The Open House – publishes in December 2020.
https://samcarringtonauthor.com/
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Great review! This sounds like a good page-turner. 🤍🌺
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