HEATHER YOUNG In Person With Paul

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HEATHER YOUNG chats to Paul Burke about her debut psychological thriller THE LOST GIRLS, storytelling, domestic abuse, ancient lands and family.
THE LOST GIRLS: In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes forever from her family’s summer house on a remote Minnesota Lake. Sixty years later, Lucy, Emily’s quiet and watchful older sister, lives alone in the lake house. When Lucy dies, she leaves the house to her grandniece, Justine. The lake house offers Justine an escape from her manipulative boyfriend and a chance to give her daughters the home she never had. But the discovery of a notebook, in which her great aunt has written the story of that devastating summer, forces Justine to realise there may be more to her inheritance than she first imagined. In a house haunted by the sorrows of the women who came before her, Justine must overcome their tragic legacy if she hopes to save herself and her children.

HEATHER YOUNG earned her law degree from the University of Virginia and practiced law in San Francisco before beginning her writing career. She received an MFA from the Bennington College Writing Seminars, and has studied at the Tin House Writers' Workshop and the Squaw Valley Writers Workshop. She lives in Mill Valley, California, with her husband and two children. The Lost Girls is her first novel.
Heather Young's second novel The Distant Dead will be published by Verve in the spring of 2022.
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