Melbourne, Australia. Photography teacher Kimberly Leamy never thought that she one day would question her identity. But, when a stranger shows up telling her that she was kidnapped as a child and she's actually named Sammy Went, she doesn't believe him at first. Could her wonderful mother, who died four years earlier, have kidnapped her in the US and traveled to Australia? However, Kimberly is proven wrong and she decided to travel to Kentucky to find out the truth about her origin. But, sometimes the past is best left in peace...
Religious fanaticism. Kidnapping. Secrets. If these sound like things you like to read about, then THE NOWHERE CHILD is the book for you - beautifully written with a story that pulls you in from the start. The present-day story is interwoven with flashbacks to what really happened twenty-six years ago when little Sammy was taken. Without giving too much away, I do want to say there are some interesting twists and turns towards the end of the book.
I quite enjoyed THE NOWHERE CHILD and I'm looking forward to reading more books from Christian White.
Winner of the Victorian Premierβs Literary Award, The
Nowhere Child is screenwriter Christian Whiteβs
internationally bestselling debut thriller of psychological
suspense about a woman uncovering devastating secrets about
her familyβand her very identityβ¦
Kimberly Leamy is a photography teacher in Melbourne,
Australia. Twenty-six years earlier, Sammy Went, a two-year
old girl vanished from her home in Manson, Kentucky. An
American accountant who contacts Kim is convinced she was
that child, kidnapped just after her birthday. She cannot
believe the woman who raised her, a loving social worker who
died of cancer four years ago, crossed international lines
to steal a toddler.
On April 3rd, 1990, Jack and Molly Wentβs daughter Sammy
disappeared from the inside their Kentucky home. Already
estranged since the girlβs birth, the couple drifted further
apart as time passed. Jack did his best to raise and protect
his other daughter and son while Molly found solace in her
faith. The Church of the Light Within, a Pentecostal
fundamentalist group who handle poisonous snakes as part of
their worship, provided that faith. Without Sammy, the Wents
eventually fell apart.
Now, with proof that she and Sammy are in fact the same
person, Kim travels to America to reunite with a family she
never knew she had. And to solve the mystery of her
abductionβa mystery that will take her deep into the dark
heart of religious fanaticism where she must fight for her
life against those determined to save her soulβ¦
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