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# 10-year story span - deep character evolution Top 10 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction 139,459 reviews - proven bestseller Then She Was Gone: A Novel

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> 📖 Dive into the twisty, emotional thriller that’s redefining women’s fiction—before your book club does!

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## Key Features

- • **Top-Tier Genre Recognition:** Ranked #9 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction and #19 in Contemporary Women Fiction—because quality matters.
- • **Multi-Perspective Narrative:** Engage with shifting narrators that reveal layered, twisty mysteries from every angle.
- • **Unrivaled Bestseller Status:** Join over 139,000 readers captivated by this #264 ranked book in all Books.
- • **Emotionally Charged Storytelling:** Experience a decade-long narrative arc that explores complex, real human emotions and relationships.
- • **Critically Acclaimed & Socially Buzzed:** 4.4-star average rating with tens of thousands of reviews—don’t miss the book everyone’s talking about.

## Overview

Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell is a critically acclaimed paperback novel blending suspense, mystery, and emotionally complex family drama. With over 139,000 reviews and top rankings in Women’s Domestic Life and Contemporary Women Fiction, this 10-year-spanning story delivers a gripping, multi-narrator experience that keeps readers hooked from start to finish.

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Review: Sad and uncomfortable ... and utterly captivating - This author is not in need of yet another review. This novel has well over 122,000 of them, so I am well aware of the fact that one more will not make a difference—either good or bad—and normally I wouldn’t take the time to write a review for a book with this many reviews … but I was deeply affected by this novel, so I decided I needed to write some of my thoughts and feelings about it down. After going through and reading some of the reviews other readers left, I was spurred on even further to share my own. Then She Was Gone is the first novel I’ve read by Lisa Jewell. I am a fan of mysteries and thrillers, and this book was one that was recommended by desertcart because of other books in my Kindle library. It also happened to be on sale—just to be honest—and the synopsis grabbed me. It sounded interesting, so I bought it. I am much like other readers … I don’t always finish every book I pick up. I am a writer myself, so I do for other authors what I hope readers will do for me and push into a book as far as I can before I stop reading. Not every book is for every reader, but this novel by Lisa Jewell was one I found enormously gripping. This story was sad and uncomfortable. It was heartbreaking, and while it wasn’t what one might categorize a typical thriller as some other reviewers stated, it was definitely mysterious and twisty, and I was propelled through the story because I had to know all of the sordid details. To be fair, as I write this review, the categories this novel is listed in are Women’s New Adult & College Fiction, Women’s Divorce Fiction and Women’s Literary Fiction. It isn’t listed in Mystery, or Suspense, or Crime. Even People Magazine says it’s an “acutely observed family drama”. While maybe not a typical mystery novel, it was recommended to me because there are elements of suspense and yes, mystery. Truthfully, I felt that Ms. Jewell delivered a book that was described perfectly by the synopsis, and it was definitely one I had a hard time putting down. There’s no way around it. Then She Was Gone is creepy. It’s gloomy. There were so many things about many of these characters that I didn’t like, that made me angry. I believe that’s one of the many reasons I kept reading—because they were all human. They were real. They did things that were annoying. I questioned them. For instance, I struggled with Laurel because I, too, am a mom to more than one child and cannot fathom loving one of them more than the other. But I’ve known other mothers in real life that are very much like Laurel. None of us are one-dimensional, and Ms. Jewell’s characters certainly weren’t. I wanted to learn more about why they were the way they were or made the decisions that they made, and the story—which is told over a ten-year time span—takes the reader on a journey and shows how the characters change and develop over that time. I believe Ms. Jewell knew the story was an emotionally exhausting one, and I think she wrote it brilliantly. Then She Was Gone made me incredibly sad, as it was meant to. It was not a book that was easy to read. As I stated before, it was emotionally taxing. It was twisted and evil, and yet utterly captivating in ways that are difficult to describe. I am more than happy to rate this book all five stars and will definitely read more from this author—although I do believe I’ll need some time for this novel to settle before I am able to jump into another written by this talented author.
Review: terrific storytelling! - What a compelling and original story. Grabbed me from the start and I found myself carving out time to read every chance I could get. Very unusual story line. At first I was just trying to figure out what was going on and when I finally did, I couldn’t believe it. I like how she changed narrators throughout the book, giving us the different perspectives of the various characters. Anyway, give it a go. You’ll enjoy it.

## Features

- Then She Was Gone: A Novel Paperback – November 6, 2018

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #264 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #9 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction #19 in Contemporary Women Fiction #61 in Suspense Thrillers |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 139,459 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sad and uncomfortable ... and utterly captivating
*by J***G on April 16, 2025*

This author is not in need of yet another review. This novel has well over 122,000 of them, so I am well aware of the fact that one more will not make a difference—either good or bad—and normally I wouldn’t take the time to write a review for a book with this many reviews … but I was deeply affected by this novel, so I decided I needed to write some of my thoughts and feelings about it down. After going through and reading some of the reviews other readers left, I was spurred on even further to share my own. Then She Was Gone is the first novel I’ve read by Lisa Jewell. I am a fan of mysteries and thrillers, and this book was one that was recommended by Amazon because of other books in my Kindle library. It also happened to be on sale—just to be honest—and the synopsis grabbed me. It sounded interesting, so I bought it. I am much like other readers … I don’t always finish every book I pick up. I am a writer myself, so I do for other authors what I hope readers will do for me and push into a book as far as I can before I stop reading. Not every book is for every reader, but this novel by Lisa Jewell was one I found enormously gripping. This story was sad and uncomfortable. It was heartbreaking, and while it wasn’t what one might categorize a typical thriller as some other reviewers stated, it was definitely mysterious and twisty, and I was propelled through the story because I had to know all of the sordid details. To be fair, as I write this review, the categories this novel is listed in are Women’s New Adult & College Fiction, Women’s Divorce Fiction and Women’s Literary Fiction. It isn’t listed in Mystery, or Suspense, or Crime. Even People Magazine says it’s an “acutely observed family drama”. While maybe not a typical mystery novel, it was recommended to me because there are elements of suspense and yes, mystery. Truthfully, I felt that Ms. Jewell delivered a book that was described perfectly by the synopsis, and it was definitely one I had a hard time putting down. There’s no way around it. Then She Was Gone is creepy. It’s gloomy. There were so many things about many of these characters that I didn’t like, that made me angry. I believe that’s one of the many reasons I kept reading—because they were all human. They were real. They did things that were annoying. I questioned them. For instance, I struggled with Laurel because I, too, am a mom to more than one child and cannot fathom loving one of them more than the other. But I’ve known other mothers in real life that are very much like Laurel. None of us are one-dimensional, and Ms. Jewell’s characters certainly weren’t. I wanted to learn more about why they were the way they were or made the decisions that they made, and the story—which is told over a ten-year time span—takes the reader on a journey and shows how the characters change and develop over that time. I believe Ms. Jewell knew the story was an emotionally exhausting one, and I think she wrote it brilliantly. Then She Was Gone made me incredibly sad, as it was meant to. It was not a book that was easy to read. As I stated before, it was emotionally taxing. It was twisted and evil, and yet utterly captivating in ways that are difficult to describe. I am more than happy to rate this book all five stars and will definitely read more from this author—although I do believe I’ll need some time for this novel to settle before I am able to jump into another written by this talented author.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ terrific storytelling!
*by K***S on October 5, 2025*

What a compelling and original story. Grabbed me from the start and I found myself carving out time to read every chance I could get. Very unusual story line. At first I was just trying to figure out what was going on and when I finally did, I couldn’t believe it. I like how she changed narrators throughout the book, giving us the different perspectives of the various characters. Anyway, give it a go. You’ll enjoy it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Satisfying
*by H***D on January 15, 2026*

This was the first book I've read by this author. I enjoyed the well-developed personalities of the characters as well as the twists in the story. I appreciate the ending, as the author ties up all loose ends and leaves no questions unanswered. I will definitely look to purchase other books by Lisa Jewell.

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