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The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone
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January 4, 2020
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January 18, 2020
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☮Karen
3.5 stars rounded up.

They keep coming out with these titles containing the words Gone and Girls, and I am still a sucker for them. Add a pink cover, and I snapped this up from Chirp as soon as they had a $.99 sale. It's description as part mystery, part coming-of-age is right up my alley; and the Australian narrator's accent is authentic.

The Van Apfel Girls -- Hannah, Cordelia, and little Ruth -- were neighbors of the Malloy girls, Tikka and Laura, before the three sisters went missing 20 years
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Martha☀
Mar 08, 2020 rated it really liked it
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3.5 stars
As an adult, Tikka returns to her childhood home in Australia and comes face-to-face with an unresolved childhood trauma. She tells the story of how three girls from her neighbourhood disappeared without a trace one night when she was 11 years old. Switching forward and back between those two times (but mostly to her childhood), she recounts the weeks and months before their disappearance and the aftermath. It has haunted her for decades, especially since she and her sister knew some cr
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Pat
Feb 20, 2020 rated it it was ok
Cannot recommend!
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Mar 04, 2019 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Kerri
Jan 22, 2020 rated it liked it
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Carlye
Jan 04, 2020 rated it it was ok
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