Vanished - Softcover

From the best-selling author of Songs in Ordinary Time. Mary McGarry Morris’s first novel is a disturbing story of obsession, abduction, love and redemption.

Aubrey Wallace is the kind of man no one notices. Dotty Johnson is the kind of woman no one can ignore. One afternoon, they both disappear from the small Vermont town where they live. The next day, two hundred miles away, a toddler is snatched from her Massachusetts home.

For the next five years, Aubrey, Dotty and the kidnapped child – bound together by strange love and desperate need – are trapped in a nomadic existence governed by their constant fear of discovery. Canny, the little girl, becomes Aubrey’s entire life. But Dotty wants out. She is tired of being saddled with this fearful little man. When she meets Jiggy Huller, a brutal ex-convict, the wheels of Canny’s return to her natural parents are wrenched into motion. "[A} disturbing, gripping story... written in prose pitched somewhere between Raymond Carver and Annie Proulx" Observer

Mary McGarry Morris is married and the mother of five children. She lives in Massachusetts. She is the author of three novels: Vanished, which was a New York Times notable book and was nominated for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award; A Dangerous Woman, which was made into a major motion picture; and Songs in Ordinary Time, which has sold over 2 million copies.