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Do Not Become Alarmed

(2017)
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When Liv and Nora decide to take their husbands and children on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities seem infinite. But when they all go ashore in beautiful Central America, a series of minor mishaps lead the families further from the ship's safety.

One minute the children are there, and the next they're gone.

What follows is a heart-racing story told from the perspectives of the adults and the children, as the distraught parents - now turning on one another and blaming themselves - try to recover their children and their shattered lives.

Genre: General Fiction

Praise for this book

"This hugely suspenseful novel will speak to anyone who has ever felt responsible for keeping a loved one safe, whether it was a child, a partner, a parent, or a friend. Meloy's characters-the adults and the children-feel like real, living people I'll never forget." - Helen Fielding

"Smart and thrilling and impossible to put down." - Ann Patchett

"She's such a talented and unpredictable writer that I'm officially joining her fan club; whatever she writes next, I'll gladly read it." - Curtis Sittenfeld


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