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Sophie Hannah
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Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton | ||
ISBN | 978-034084032 | ||
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Jayne
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Synopsis
Alice's baby is two weeks old when she leaves the house without her for the first time. On her eager return, she finds the front door open, her husband asleep on their bed upstairs. She rushes into their baby's room and screams. 'This isn't our baby! Where's our baby?' Her increasingly hostile husband swears she must be either mad or lying, and the DNA test is going to take a week. One week later, before the test has been taken, Alice and the baby have disappeared. Run away, abducted, murdered? The police who dismissed her baby swap story must find out, and as they do they find dark incidents in David's past - like the murder of his ex-wife...
Review
This book is every Mother's Nightmare, Alice has just spent two hours away from home leaving her husband with their new Baby Florence, just to have a wee break from the house. But when she returns she swears that the baby in the cot is not her Florence and starts a full scale attempt to find her baby.
The father swears that it is Florence but then the Grandmother returns home also and seems to back Alice and says well it could or not could be Florence she has not seen her since the day she was born.
The Story goes through many twists and turns the baby starts to be called "Little Face" but Alice is not allowed anywhere near the baby and she feels that the police are not supporting her through the disappearance of her baby daughter. Why are they not checking? Why are they not searching and looking for this baby?
There seems to be a secret mystery going on behind the scenes it keeps throwing up odd clues but no one invesigates until Alice suddenly remembers that there is supposed to be a long waiting list for the school that her husbands first son was put into immediately after his mother died. How then if there is such a long waiting list did the grandmother get him in straight away when his mum died?
Beautifully moving and intruiging, Wonderfully written by Sophie Hannah.
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