A small town A missing schoolgirl A terrible secret & one girl's fight to survive Sixteen-year-old Claudette Flint is coming home from hospital after an escalating depression left her unable to cope She may seem unchanged on the outside; but everything's different The same could be said about her seaside hometown A local teenager Sarah has disappeared Sarah had a bad reputation round town; but now she's vanished the close-knit community seems to be unspooling As the police investigate & the press digs around for dirt small town scandals start to surface What nobody knows yet is that Claudette & Sarah had a secret friendship & that the last secret Sarah shared may be the key to the truth After weeks of focusing solely on herself Claudette realizes she is not the only part of the world that needs fixing
- & that if she can piece together the fragments of Sarah's story then maybe she can piece herself back together too Another Place is a novel about lost girls recovered life
- & the meaning of home