If You Find Me, by Emily Murdoch is an absolute page-turner of a book – I cared so much about what happened to Carey that I couldn’t stop reading. I think there were even bits where I was holding my breath.

This is not an easy read – Carey and Janessa are survivors because they have had to be survivors; Carey is a fierce protector for her little sister. Although it made me cry (and I will have to add it to my list of books to be loaned with tissues), ultimately I thought that If You Find Me was a hopeful book, about love, coping and family.

The blurb says:

Carey is keeping a terrible secret. If she tells, it could destroy her future. If she doesn’t, will she ever be free?

 

For almost as long as she can remember, Carey has lived in a camper van in the heart of the woods with her drug-addicted mother and six-year-old sister, Jenessa.

 

Their mother routinely disappears for weeks at a time, leaving the girls to cope alone. Survival is Carey’s only priority – until strangers arrive and everything changes . . .