The Stolen Child

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Terrific, truly a one-sitting read so be warned and allow space for it to be so.  Zoe and Ollie adopt baby Evie, the unwanted child of a drug addict, father unknown.  Premature, incubated and fighting for her life, the tiny bundle is adored.  Five years later the couple have an unexpected, naturally conceived son.  They have now moved to a small town on the edge of the West Yorkshire moor.  Wild and beautiful, it inspires Zoe's work for she is an artist with an exhibition looming.  Ollie is an ambitious workaholic accountant in line for a company partnership.  Zoe, like a lot of mothers with young children, finds life fraught and has a problem juggling kids, now seven and two, and art.  A fellow artist from her gallery becomes over attentive just as Evie becomes secretive and stroppy.  She is hiding notes and presents from her 'real father'.  Naturally, as the title suggests, she is abducted but prior to that, tragedy strikes the family and the whole pace of the novel changes gear.  From about page 150 to the end (313 pp) and the unexpected climax you really will find it difficult to put this down. ~ Sarah Broadhurst

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