CN-083 — The Day I Lost You — Ruth Mancini Coleman’s Notes — The Reader’s Companion Digital Reader’s Companion | £6.95
One child. Two mothers. A truth that depends on who you believe.
Lauren Hopwood has built a new life in Spain with her two-year-old son, Sam.
Then the police arrive.
They tell Lauren that Sam is a missing British child. Another couple — Hope Dunsmore and Andrew “Drew” Faris — insist that Sam is their son and that Lauren has taken him.
But Lauren has documentation saying otherwise.
As two very different accounts of the past begin to emerge, questions of motherhood, grief, memory, surrogacy and identity become inseparable from a much larger mystery:
Who is telling the truth?
Coleman’s Notes CN-083 takes you beyond the twists to explore the evidence, characters, timeline and moral questions at the heart of Ruth Mancini’s psychological thriller.
Your Reader’s Companion Includes
✓ Extended Plot Summary
✓ Detailed guide to all 39 chapters
✓ Main Character Studies
✓ Character Relationship Map
✓ Six-Part Timeline at a Glance
✓ Key Places and Settings
✓ Motherhood — biology, law and daily care
✓ Grief and replacement
✓ Memory, trauma and credibility
✓ Drew — guilt, cowardice and belated responsibility
✓ Hope — therapist and unreliable participant
✓ Gabe and chosen family
✓ The law — truth versus proof
✓ Surrogacy and narrative control
✓ The yellow Porsche — symbol and evidence
✓ Spain and the dream of starting again
✓ Names, identity and the two Sams
✓ Non-linear structure
✓ Moral ambiguity
✓ Evidence File
✓ Major Turning Points
✓ Questions the novel deliberately leaves uncomfortable
✓ Re-reading Guide
✓ Ending Explained
✓ Memorable Moments
✓ Further Reading & Discussion Context
✓ 25 Book-Club Questions
✓ Quick Recall
Perfect for Book Clubs
The Day I Lost You is particularly well suited to group discussion because every new piece of information forces the reader to reconsider what came before.
Who deserves to be called Sam’s mother?
How reliable should traumatic memory be considered?
Does understanding why somebody acted as they did make their actions more forgivable?
Can the law establish the truth when the people involved have concealed crucial information?
And how much should intention matter when the consequences of a decision are devastating?
The Reader’s Companion gives your group the chronology, analysis and discussion questions needed to explore these issues after finishing the novel.
Richard & Judy Collection 2 — £25.95
Also available in the five-title collection:
CN-083 — The Day I Lost You — Ruth Mancini
CN-084 — The Great Alone — Kristin Hannah
CN-085 — A Particularly Nasty Case — Adam Kay
CN-086 — We Are All Guilty Here — Karin Slaughter
CN-087 — Swept Away — Beth O’Leary
Individual Reader’s Companion: £6.95
Five individually: £34.75
Complete five-title collection: £25.95 — Save £8.80
Digital product — no physical book will be supplied. The original novel is not included.
Read • Reflect • Explore • Understand
Coleman’s Notes is an independent publication and is not affiliated with, authorised by or endorsed by Ruth Mancini, her publishers, or the Richard & Judy Book Club.
