A Place Called Here Trivia Quiz

Answer: He is her school counselor.

When Jenny-May Butler, a girl at Sandy's school, goes missing, Sandy becomes obsessive about finding out where missing things go. Her parents arrange for her to visit Gregory Burton, who tries to help her through her problems. Sandy and Gregory become a couple once Sandy has left school, but the sexual tension between them is palpable during their school meetings. Neither seem to be concerned about the age gap nor Gregory's position even though Sandy is underage when they first meet.

Answer: Helena

The group at the campsite, although now in their fifties, are no other than the group of schoolchildren who went missing in the sixties on a camping trip, a group Sandy is very familiar with as she had a great interest in the case as a child. Although Helena is the least inviting member of the group, Sandy has the most interaction with her and she is appointed her guide because she is the one who takes Sandy to be registered.

Answer: True

It is strange for Sandy to meet the missing people, because having read so much about them and talked to their families while investigating, she feels a close connection to them that is not able to be reciprocated. She is able to offer comfort to them, telling them how their families are getting on and reassuring them that they are still missed.

Answer: Police officer

Sandy had wanted to become a garda (what the Irish call a police officer) when she was still in school, undoubtedly linked to her interest in the missing. She left the police and became an investigator of missing persons because her obsession meant she could never let the cases go when it was time to move on.

Answer: The Wizard of Oz

To avoid alerting the village residents of Sandy's job in the "real world", Helena pretends she runs an acting agency instead of a missing persons agency. The staging of the play is ostensibly so that Sandy can arrange meetings with those she had been investigating.

The theme of the play -- Dorothy's journey to an odd world and her desperation to return home -- mirrors Sandy's own adventure, though it takes her a while to realize it.

Answer: Watch

As Here is the place where all missing things and people go, the residents believe that nothing can go missing from there -- where, after all, would it go? When Sandy's watch goes missing, falling as it habitually does from her wrist, the villagers, particularly Helena's husband Joseph, are very suspicious.

It is revealed that years before, another person's belongings one by one began to go missing, culminating in the man himself disappearing. The missing watch leaves the villagers so shaken that they conduct a council meeting, imploring Sandy to prove to them the watch was found, the council leader even pretending it has been found to assuage them of their fears.

Answer: Butterfly

Sandy does not know any Swahili, but her queries about the word's meaning are not answered. Helena insists she does not understand Swahili, but it transpires that she has known the whole time that Joseph is referring to Sandy as a butterfly. Joseph is thinking of the butterfly farmers back home in Kenya who are known as "guardians of the forest"; the villagers have come to consider Sandy as a guardian of their forest, Here.

Answer: He told Donal to take a taxi.

Poor Jack realizes something isn't right about the various accounts of the last night Donal was seen alive when Alan accidentally lets slip details that prove he lied in his statement to the police. He confronts Alan, and the truth of Donal's death is revealed: Donal was repairing the computer of a gang that Alan was working for, and when he heard something incriminating, the gang decided to get rid of him once and for all. Alan directs Donal to the specific taxi despite knowing what lies in store for his friend, as the gang's threats to him became too much. Jack is disgusted by the news that Donal has died in such traitorous circumstances, but he is finally able to begin to get closure and move on with his girlfriend, Gloria.

Answer: Yes

At first Sandy is led to believe that Jenny-May is not in Here, because her name does not turn up on the list of Irish villagers. But it transpires that Jenny-May arrived in Here with a Frenchman who adopted her, and she has been considered French the entire time she has been there. Sandy is able to visit Jenny-May and the two have a tearful reunion, despite the fact that they disliked each other in school.

Answer: False

Sandy is a lucky woman! She manages to return home with a newfound appreciation for her loved ones. Cecelia Ahern's books often require the reader to suspend certain beliefs in reality, and this ending is no different: why Sandy should be able to return home when no one else can seems to be because she had a profound purpose in being in Here rather than simply going missing like the rest.

She needed to get closure on the subject of Jenny-May and where missing things go. At first it seems that Sandy has dreamt it all, but she produces the photograph of her and Jenny-May that they took in Here, showing to Gregory that she is telling the truth.

The book ends with Sandy and Gregory seemingly reconciled for good.