PRE-ORDER: Publication Date – 30th July, 2026

Who is Laura Clark? To her colleagues, she’s an invisible forty-something HR manager, emailing about lift repairs and quietly stocking the meeting-room snacks.

To her golf-obsessed husband and selfie-obsessed teenage daughter, she’s the reliable constant – dinner on the table, mess cleaned away, needs met without thanks. To her elderly mother, she’s a patient ear for endless complaints. Laura Clark is the woman everyone relies on.

And barely anyone sees. But one day Laura puts on her ‘out of office’ message – and doesn’t come back. And soon, everyone’s formerly ordered lives quickly begin to descend into all-out chaos.

Where has Laura gone? Has something terrible happened to her? Or has she – unthinkably – decided to finally give her own life the finger? To find out, the people in her life must realise that, maybe, they never really knew Laura Clark at all.