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Seventeen-year-old Bea Carter cuts eleven minutes from a highlights edit of a charity event to protect her brother. When her former friend Rowan disappears, the footage becomes part of a police investigation. Bea knows what she took out. She is less certain about what she actually saw. A young adult thriller about family loyalty, private lives and the choices behind every version of a story.
About 5 hr 35 min · 44 chapters Available offlineBrief reading pointers without plot spoilers; not an exhaustive list of every subject.
Novel · 44 chapters · 70,282 words
Available languages: Nederlands, English
AI-assisted novel, read and edited for language and continuity by the AI assistant. Independent human native-language review remains pending.
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In the version I sent to the school, my brother never came through the door.
There was no cleverness to it. I put a marker at nine minutes past the hour, changed my mind, moved it back another three, and lifted out the whole gap between the speeches and the band. Nobody needed eleven minutes of an empty stage. Nobody had paid five pounds to watch a man in a fleece try to connect a keyboard.
The cut made the evening look better organised than it had been. That was the job.
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