Saltwater Mansions: The Woman Who Disappeared and Other Untold Stories

Author:	Whitehouse, David
Binding:	Hardcover
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ISBN:	9781399621977
Publisher:	Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Language:	English
Page Count:	204
Publication Date:	6/12/2025
Size:	8.75" l x 5.63" w x 0.88"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Biography & Autobiography	Personal Memoirs
Literary Collections	Essays
Architecture	Buildings

Margate is in the grip of a heatwave when David Whitehouse stumbles across the mysterious story of a local woman who lived on the ground floor of Saltwater Mansions, a block of flats not far from the sea. On paper, Caroline Lane was unremarkable. She paid her mortgage every month. She always paid her bills. But nobody had seen or heard from her for 13 years, and no one had ever come looking. She had disappeared completely.

David quickly becomes as fascinated by this missing woman as the residents of Saltwater Mansions, all of whom have their own theories to share, and their own unique stories to tell. As his obsession grows, David unearths vital clues that private detectives and amateur investigators alike have failed to spot. But the closer he gets to the truth, the clearer it becomes that this mystery was never meant to be solved, and that some stories don't want to be told. What if this one was never about Caroline Lane at all?

From acclaimed and award-winning author David Whitehouse, Saltwater Mansions is an astonishing work of creative non-fiction blending reportage and memoir to explore the extraordinary hidden lives of ordinary people, the impact of grief, and the dangerous allure of taking true crime stories into our own hands.

'I inhaled it in a sitting - what an exhilarating book. Brave, revealing and unexpected' Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love

'A tremendous chronicler of real stories . . . an utterly absorbing read' i Paper

'Ordinary lives, family grief, true crime, the dangers of amateur sleuthing, unexpected stories . . . there's a whole universe of humanity wrapped up in David Whitehouse's much anticipated new work of non-fiction . . . Prepare to read it in one addictive sitting' Stylist