Seesaw

The Prices are a comfortable, well-off family, the kind that seems to have everything in order. One Sunday their seventeen-year-old daughter Hannah vanishes without explanation, and when a ransom note asks for £500,000 for her safe return, the family closes ranks to deal with it.

The novel's real focus begins once Hannah is home. The family then loses its house, its social standing and its money. Guilt and hardship begin to pull them apart, and each member is pushed to face who they really are.

The story ends with Hannah, who has a surprise in store that the book holds back until the very last pages.