Hannah takes on the new name Becca King, knowing that it is necessary to cover her tracks. They leave their home in San Diego and head north. The novel begins when King, then called Hannah Armstrong, goes on the run with her mother to escape her stepfather, Jeff, having learned that he has planned a murder. Collectively, the books are known for elegantly characterizing life on this remote island in the Pacific Northwest. The novel is the first of a sequence of books by George chronicling the people who come and go from Whidbey Island. She spends four years on the island, trying to hide her supernatural ability to hear “whispers,” or the thoughts of those around her. Expecting initially to stay for a short time, her mother leaves her behind. Elizabeth George’s young adult novel The Edge of Nowhere (2011), a bildungsroman, or coming of age story, follows Becca King, a girl who travels from San Diego to the mostly uninhabited Whidbey Island to escape her murderous stepfather.
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