***SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES***Read the deeply atmospheric and masterfully crafted tale of love and loss that will chill you to the bone.’Stunning’Simon Mayo Radio 2 Book Club’A twist-filled page-turner’Closer—Three-year-old Dillon vanished in the middle of the night. His father Harry can’t forgive himself for not protecting his only child. Yet Harry isn’t blamed by his wife Robin: she bares her own secret guilt.Five years later, thousands of miles away, Harry spots an eight-year-old boy in a crowd – a boy he is convinced is Dillon.Desperate to find his missing son, Harry’s obsession tears apart his marriage, exposing shameful secrets and shattering the one thing he and Robin had left – trust.Why won’t Robin believe Harry?What is she hiding?Can the boy really be Dillon?And how far will Harry go to find their lost son?—‘The Boy That Never Wasis that powerful thing, a beautifully written mystery driven by its exploration of the characters’ innermost hearts’Tana French’A truly remarkable novel . . . Written in a captivating, lyrical style and brilliantly structured, the story grips your heart from the first pages and simply never lets go’Jeffery Deaver’This is a debut novel that will catch fire’Nelson DeMille’A beautifully written, tense and twisty tale’Sunday Mirror’Equal parts thriller, mystery and fascinating psychological study’Irish Times