Clare McKintosh, I Let You Go

Bristol-born Clare Mackinstosh’s debut novel I Let You Go has been a runaway success and even beat  fellow Bristol-(Yate)-novelist, JK Rowling. n the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2016.

What I Let You Go is about (from the website)

In a split second, Jenna Gray’s world is shattered. Her only hope of moving on is to walk away from everything she knows to start afresh. Desperate to escape her past, Jenna moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast, but she is haunted by her fears, her grief and her memories of the cruel November night that changed her life for ever.

DI Ray Stevens from Bristol Police is tasked with seeking justice for a mother who is living every parent’s worst nightmare. Determined to get to the bottom of the case, it begins to consume him as he puts both his professional and personal life on the line.

As Ray and his team seek to uncover the truth, Jenna, slowly, begins to glimpse the potential for happiness in her future. But her past is about to catch up with her, and the consequences will be devastating . . .

About Clare and Bristol

“My police career was spent in Thames Valley Police, and the hit and run that inspired I LET YOU GO took place in Oxford. I didn’t want to write about my home force – it felt a little too close – but I wanted a city of similar size, and the right sort of distance from where Jenna – my protagonist – runs to. I was born in Bristol and both my sisters went to university there, so it felt familiar enough to write about.”

Clare’s second book, I See You is set in London. She has yet to pin-point the location for book three yet, so maybe we’ll see a return to Bristol.

Mackintosh herself only lived in Henbury, Bristol until she was three, but her grandfather was a doctor at Clifton Hospital.

Screen rights to I Let You Go have been sold.

https://claremackintosh.com/