I remembered declaring in this blog (my earlier articles on her works) tht I love every piece of Cecilia's work. Strangely, this book was quite a drag to read (at least for me). It took me like 2-mths (?!?) to complete reading it (with breaks filled by reading other books).
It's not tht the storyline is bad. It's quite an interesting idea actually. Probably the start was a bit too slow paced & there's pieces of puzzles tht needs fixing (& am too lazy to figure out I guess); but it became interesting & easier to plod through the rest of the way.
"Here" in this book is referring to a place where all the "X-files" / people / things tht went mysteriously missing, went to. But I'm jumping the gun. Let me start with the main character. She's Sandy Shortt & her name is a contradiction to her appearance (her hair is dark brown & not sandy at all; while her legs is so long she can hardly be referred to being short even by men's standards).
Anyway, Sandy has a childhood "friend" cum "enemy" called Jenny-May Butler. One fine day Jenny-May went missing & Sandy blamed herself for the cause of Jenny-May's disappearance. Apparently, it was because she prayed / wished very much tht she doesn't need to face Jenny-May ever again & lo-behold she's missing.
After that it became her obsession to find ALL things tht has gone missing. She didn't stop at ppl. She'd also turn the whole hse upside down, comb the streets & trace back all possible routes just to find a missing sock or watch or toothbrush. It was her obsession even in her adulthood, where after quiting the police force (initially she thought she can help find missing persons legitimately) she has set up an agency specialised in locating missing person. Success rate may be slim, but at least she hope she's doing something to return these missing people to their loved ones.
Along the way, she stumbled into "Here" & found tht there's a whole community of missing person of all nationalities that they even had Registries by the language tht each new comer converse in. They even have several villages, with their own local councils, townhalls, schools, medical facilities (all using whatever tht is "found" Here but missing in the other world where we live in) etc. Sandy refused to accept tht she'll be Here forever & to conform to the way of life tht's being set up by the community.
There's more to the story, but essentially it's about "Here". Do read it if you want to know what happened to Sandy in the end & whether she succeeded in her quest to find Jenny-May.
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