THE CHILD is an intriguing suspense thriller that takes you on a roller coaster of uncertainties until the very end! Fiona Barton, author of THE WIDOW, left me speechless. Once I started, it was all I could think about, so I had to finish it in a few short days. You never know what secrets people keep, and in THE CHILD, there were three women who each had some themselves. Some of these secrets, I never saw coming!
Journalist Kate Waters hears, like many others in this small London town, of the remains of a small baby that seemed to have been buried for years. They were found when a workman moves debris from a demolished house and notices them. Kate can't stop thinking about the story behind this poor baby. What happened and who is responsible? She decides to look into who the identity of the baby and how it ended up there. In her search for answers from the people who lived on that street, she meets women that each have a story to tell and secrets to keep. What she finds out will be a twist that she did not expect.
All of this suspense makes for an astonishing novel that anyone who loves deep intense storylines will relish. I love how Barton made each chapter from the eyes of each character, which helped you understand what each one was feeling. The emotions can be felt from their perspective as you read through each part leaving you dazed at times. THE CHILD by Fiona Barton is one that you should put on your list to read.
The author of the stunning New York Times
bestseller The Widow returns with a brand-new
novel of twisting psychological suspense.
As an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section
of London, a workman discovers a tiny skeleton, buried for
years. For journalist Kate Waters, itβs a story that
deserves attention. She cobbles together a piece for her
newspaper, but at a loss for answers, she can only pose a
question: Who is the Building Site Baby?
As Kate investigates, she unearths connections to a crime
that rocked the city decades earlier: A newborn baby was
stolen from the maternity ward in a local hospital and was
never found. Her heartbroken parents were left devastated by
the loss.
But there is more to the story, and Kate is drawnβhouse by
houseβinto the pasts of the people who once lived in this
neighborhood that has given up its greatest mystery. And she
soon finds herself the keeper of unexpected secrets that
erupt in the lives of three womenβand torn between what she
can and cannot tellβ¦
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