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The Child by Fiona Barton
The Child by Fiona Barton












The Child by Fiona Barton

On 20th March 2012 the Evening Standard newspaper, ran with a story about a baby’s body being found on the building site of where an old house used to stand.

The Child by Fiona Barton

She feels vulnerable and sad most of the time, sometimes struggling to just get out of bed. The plot is written over a period of time, from 20th March 2012, to 16th May 2012, with a couple of follow up chapters at the end, dated 2013.Įmma suffers from what I presume is depression/anxiety issues. The Child is a thriller told from four different perspectives. And she soon finds herself the keeper of unexpected secrets that erupt in the lives of three women–and torn between what she can and cannot tell… Her heartbroken parents were left devastated by the loss.īut there is more to the story, and Kate is drawn–house by house–into the pasts of the people who once lived in this neighborhood that has given up its greatest mystery. 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?Īs 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. For journalist Kate Waters, it’s a story that deserves attention. Format – ebook, paperback, hardcover, audioĪs an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers a tiny skeleton, buried for years.














The Child by Fiona Barton