How a Woman Becomes a Lake

'A surefire hit' Jo Spain. 'Masterful' Karen Thompson Walker 'I could not put it down' Eliza Robertson. THIS DAY NEVER HAPPENED. YOU HEAR ME. By a frozen lake, ten-year-old Jesse waits for his father. It's New Year's Day, and his dad promised a fresh start. But Jesse messed it all up. And that's when he meets the woman. In the months ahead, the woman's sudden disappearance sets off a chain of events in Whale Bay, spanning out like fracture lines into the lives of her husband, the detective trying to solve her case, and of Jesse and his family - a young boy cracking like ice under the weight of a terrible secret. How A Woman Becomes a Lake. is a chilling literary mystery that asks what happens when we are failed by the ones we love.