Emma Healey follows the achievement of her #1 internationally bestselling debut book Elizabeth Is Missing, winner of the Costa Initial Novel Award, with this beautiful, thought-provoking, and psychologically organic tale that affirms her position as one of the most inventive and initial literary novelists today.

Jen and Hugh Maddox have simply survived every parent’s most severe nightmare.

Relieved, but still terrified, they sit by the hospital bedside of their fifteen-year-old girl, Lana, who was discovered about Whistle in the Dark: A Novel bloodied, bruised, and disoriented following going missing for four days during a mother-daughter vacation in the united states. As Lana is situated mute in the bed, unwilling or struggling to articulate what happened to her during that period, the national press speculates wildly and Jen and Hugh make an effort to answer many queries.

Where was Lana? How do she get harm? Was the teenage guy who befriended her included? How did she survive outside for all those days? Even when she returns to the house and her college routine, Lana only provides the same frustrating answer again and again: ‘I can’t remember.’

For years, Jen had tried to soothe the depressive demons plaguing her young child, and had always dreaded the worst. Now she’s hope-the family has gone through hell and turn out the other side. But Jen cannot forget about her have to find the reality. Without telling Hugh or their pregnant old daughter Meg, Jen cause to retrace Lana’s steps, a journey that may lead her to a deeper understanding of her youngest little girl, her family members, and herself.

A wry, poignant, and masterfully drawn tale that explores the bonds and duress of family life, the discomfort of mental illness, and the fraught yet enduring connection between moms and daughters, Whistle at night is a tale of guilt, dread, wish, and love that explores what this means to lose and find ourselves and those we love.