The Truth About Celia: A novel

About this book

From the award-winning author of Things That Fall from the Sky a richly nuanced and deeply moving novel about the disappearance of a young girl as told by her devastated father. Celia is seven years old on the day she goes missing. Her father Christopher is giving a tour of their historic house; her mother Janet is at an orchestra rehearsal. Celia is outside playing. She rides her bicycle. She throws a rubber ball against the roof. She disappears. A writer of fantasy and science fiction Christopher finds himself drawn into a grief-induced world of wishful fantasy in which Celia still exists. Plunging into his work to help him cope with her disappearance he writes of its effects from the points of view of the people who are still haunted by her absence: Janet the policeman who is in charge of the case and Christopher himselfeach voice contributing to the heart-wrenching picture of a town subtly but lastingly changed. The Truth About Celia is a novel of remarkable understandingan extraordinary exploration of profound loss and inconsolable grief.