Who is Alice Salmon? Student. Journalist. Daughter. Lover of late nights, hater of deadlines.

That girl who drowned last year.

Gone doesn't mean forgotten. Everyone's life leaves a trace behind. But it's never the whole story.

'Every month brings another book billed the new Gone Girl, but we think we've found a winner.' Marie Claire

'. . . an extraordinary and bold creation: life and death in all its messiness, replete with contradictions, misunderstandings, confusion and an awful lot of booze.' The Guardian