Sive and her three children are standing on a crowded tube platform waiting to board. Her two eldest daughters jump on the train but as she tries to wangle the buggy with he youngest, the doors close and the trains takes off. Sive rushes to the next stop telling herself that things will be okay but when she reaches the next platform, only one of her daughters is there. The book begins with every parents' worst nightmare. You are getting on the underground and suddenly the doors close with your children on the other side of the doors....you watch as the train leaves the station whilst you are still on the platform with your newborn son...you finally get on the next train and get off to see your children waiting for you....however only one child is waiting and she can't tell you what happened to her sister..... In this case it’s a frazzled Irish mother, Sive, on a few days break in London from Dublin, with her husband, Aaron, as he catches up with old friends. Aaron is a high-flying criminal defence lawyer and Sive writes lifestyle pieces from home, allowing her the time to care for her children, while also maintaining some bit of independence for herself. Aaron has been very successful in his career providing the family with a very comfortable life. This trip to London is very important to Aaron as he likes to polish his feathers when in the company of this particular bunch of old friends.

La trama y su desarrollo. Es una trama inteligente. Está dividida en tres partes que a su vez se subdividen en capítulos cortos. Cada uno de ellos pone el foco en una de las tres mujeres protagonistas, Marissa, Jenny o Irene. La acción comienza en noviembre de 2018. La mayoría de los capítulos se sitúan en ese momento. Entre ellos, otros que se retrotraen en el tiempo hasta un margen de cinco meses atrás, que es cuando comenzaron a gestarse los hechos. Este combinar el presente con esos momentos del pasado cumple su función. La autora maneja bien los tiempos; la intriga se mantiene inalterada de principio a fin. El ritmo sin ser frenético no se hace lento. Sive is playing the dutiful wife so heads off to meet one of his pals for coffee and brings the kids along.What follows is her tense, terrifying search to find her lost child, with alternate chapters detailing a reunion of her husband's friends that she attended several days earlier. The husband's a lawyer, defending some very dodgy people. Did they abduct her child? Or are her husband's friends keeping dark secrets? Was becoming a writer and getting those “what ifs and dark stories” ideas down on paper something Mara always envisaged doing? Has your other daughter got lost? Been taken by a passing stranger? Or perhaps the culprit is closer to home than you think? No one is telling the truth, and the longer the search continues, the harder she will be to find... Her new book No One Saw A Thing is set in London over a weekend, where an Irish couple and their children are visiting for a reunion with old friends. Sive and Aaron are a power couple, she’s a journalist and he’s a high flying criminal defence lawyer. A fast paced psychological thriller that had me on the edge of my seat. Unnerving and unsettling to read as a parent but utterly unputdownable - I was gripped from the very start. One of the things I love about Andrea's stories is that there's an authenticity and realness about the scenarios her characters find themselves in (this one in particular was based on a real life event that happened to her and her sister when they were children). She plays on a parents biggest fear and turns it into a tense and compelling read with plenty of twists and turns that make it impossible to put down. I won't say anything about the plot as I don't want to give a thing away but I think this is up there as one of my favourites from Andrea to date!

Me han gustado mucho la construcción de los personajes, tanto de los principales como de los secundarios. Marissa y Peter son la pareja triunfadora. La desaparición de su hijo marca para ellos un antes y un después. As the plot unfolds, it emerges that any number of acquaintances of theirs could have taken Faye - Aaron is not short of enemies. Marissa llega a la dirección exacta, a la hora acordada, a recoger a su hijo Milo. Es la primera vez que recibe una invitación a jugar con un niño de su nuevo colegio. Pero la mujer que abre la puerta no es la madre que ella esperaba. Tampoco es una niñera. Y Milo no está en esta casa. Así comienza la peor pesadilla de todas las madres y padres. Los secundarios tampoco tienen desperdicio. El trío de padres que critican en las puertas del colegio a la entrada y salida son para echarles de comer aparte. En más de un momento pensé que si la Sarah se mordiera sin querer la lengua, se envenenaba fijo. Corrosiva es poco. Adeline, la suegra de Jenny es otra que también destila veneno por todos sus poros.

Pros: well-written, pace was fantastic!!!!, intricate plot, solid mystery that presented a lot of different suspects and kept you guessing most of the way through

Marissa Irvine believes her son Milo is on a post school playdate with Jenny’s son Jacob and duly arrives at 14 Tudor Grove to collect him only to find the front door opened by a complete stranger. Thus begins every parents nightmare. Jenny is in France on business and has no knowledge of any arrangements and over the next few days suspicions fall in several places. The story is told from several perspectives including Marissa and Jenny which works very well. Your two little girls jump on the train ahead of you. As you try to join them, the doors slide shut and the train moves away, leaving you behind. As with her other fabulous books Andrea sends us down blind alley after blind alley. Just when you think you have one bit neatly figured out she drops another bombshell on you. I read this in a couple of sittings, flying through it. Whilst it’s not my favourite of Andrea’s, this one is perfect for holidays or when you’re looking for something compelling between heavier, longer reads. Truth is stranger than fiction, or so it’s said, and happily for me, my kids spent most of their early years putting the heart crossways on me by temporarily disappearing and providing inspiration for future books.Unfortunately the pacing was just a lil too slow and the writing a lil too basique for this to be a Honda Civic Reliable. It has a nice cast of clearly-drawn characters (albeit a lil one dimensional) but seems to be missing the necessary police presence (similar to No One Saw a Thing). Also the characters acted a lil obtuse to further the plot, which is a pet peeve of mine. For example, when Marissa finds out X might have been in a seggsual cahoots with the baddie, she wonders if she should call the police or not. GIRL?????? YES. Andrea Mara is an auto-buy author for me. I've read all her previous books and loved them, so when I found out that No One Saw A Thing was available to request on Netgalley of course I jumped at the opportunity to read it. Thanks to NetGalley & Bantam Press for an eARC of this book. The following review is my honest reflection on the text provided. In the book, some of the characters ask Sive what it’s like to be a stay-at-home mum – to not have to worry about work. This too is drawn from real life. I have clear memories of people telling me they envied me having so much free time, when I was working full-time hours with no childcare.”