Review by Marlene Engel
Every parent’s worst nightmare is
having one’s child abducted. What would
you do if you were at the store, turned your attention from your child in the
shopping cart for moments, only to find that the child was taken during that
time?
In an impulsive decision, Lucy spies
a child left unattended in a shopping cart and snatches the child when no one is
looking. She renames the four month old
baby Mia and raises her as her own for twenty one years. Telling people that she adopted the baby and
even hires a nanny from China to help care for her. Taken place in the 1990s, the story
alternates between several people who were affected by the incident. It’s told from the current day with
flashbacks to the time of the abduction and years proceeding it.
For the most part, Lucy justifies her
decision to take Marilyn’s baby. She
feels that she is a good mother, who did a great job raising Mia. At times she thinks back to her actions and
how it must have impacted the birth mother.
For Marilyn, her life is in shambles.
She tries her best to pick herself up and move on. In time their lives cross and what happens
from there will change both of their lives forever.
Talk about giving you chills. This book literally had me on the edge of my
seat with each page I read. If you’re
looking for an impossible to put down thriller, you won’t want to miss this
book. You will be thinking about it long
after you turned the last page!
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About the Author:
Helen grew up in King of Prussia, PA, the first of eight
children. She wrote her first novel at age 8, in a school composition notebook,
a domestic tale about a family of birds. After graduating from
Cornell University, she took up another kind of fiction–advertising. She spent
over 20 fun-filled years at ad agencies in San Francisco and New York, working
as a writer and creative director on global brands like Clairol, Nikon, Volvo
and Absolut.
Helen received an MFA in fiction from The New
School and is an avid speaker on 21st century storytelling. She lives
with her husband in New York and Salisbury, CT.
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author at:
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What Was Mine by Helen Klein Ross
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