Do you have a favourite author? If I am ever asked for a book recommendation, I will always say 'No Further Questions by Gillian McAllister'. How To Disappear may have just knocked that off the top spot.

14 year old Zara witnesses the murder of a homeless man by a football player. In court, it comes out that she has lied slightly and the case it thrown out. The footballer's career is over due to these allegations and a vigilante group set out to find her and make her pay. Due to her age, she is known only as Girl A but it doesn't take long for them to find out her real name and where she lives.

She is threatened so must go into witness protection. She lives with a blended family; her mum Lauren, stepdad Aidan and stepsister Poppy. Poppy is a teenage carer for her mum who has MS. Aidan can't leave his daughter (who must stay to care for her mum) so Lauren and Zara have to go alone. The family is split up.

The chapters alternate between the points of view of Aidan, Lauren, Poppy and Zara and the book is in three sections; Before, After and Later.

Aidan tries to infiltrate the group that are searching for Girl A so that they don't find Lauren and Zara, claiming he's searching for them but throwong them off the scent. Poppy, Lauren and Zara all have secrets that they are hiding and you feel very worried that they are going to contradict each other and everything will backfire.

The pace is fantastic and my heart was in my mouth whilst reading. Towards the end of the After section, I felt like my heart was racing and it had me almost wanting to cry! I lost count of how many times I wanted to shout "What are you doing?!" at a number of characters.

All of the characters have so much depth to them and I liked hearing about Poppy's struggles being a teenage carer for her mum. I feel like that is something that would often be overlooked.

The epilogue was just perfect and nearly had me crying again. Bravo, Gillian!