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|title=Deceptions
|author=Rebecca Frayn
|reviewer=Jo Heffer
|summary=Annie Wray's twelve year old son, Dan, vanishes after school one day. For three long years there is no word or sighting of him. Annie refuses to give up hope although all her family and friends urge her to be realistic and to expect the worst. One day, quite unexpectedly, there is news of Dan, but will Annie ever find out what really happened to her beloved son?
|rating=4.5
|buy=#Yes|borrow=#|paperback=|hardback=0743268784|audiobook=|ebook=Yes
|pages=288
|publisher=Simon & Schuster
|date=May 2010
|isbn=978-0743268783
|amazonukcover=<amazonuk>0743268784</amazonuk>|amazonusaznuk=0743268784|aznus=<amazonus>0743268784</amazonus>
}}
Life has not been easy for Annie Wray. Her husband died of leukaemia and she was left to bring up her two young children Dan and Rachel. She appears to have a second chance at happiness after meeting Julian who eventually proposes to her. Before they can set a date for the wedding though, twelve year old Dan fails to return from school one day and appears to have vanished without trace. This is the situation that is met by the reader at the start of 'Deceptions' and no one has a clue where he might be or what might have happened to him.
I'd like to thank the publishers for sending a copy to The Bookbag.
If Deceptions appeals to you, you could take a look at [[The Missing by Jane Casey]], another book where a twelve year old boy goes missing.
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