Silent Child
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My review -
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mum Emma’s six year old boy, Aiden, went missing in a flood, presumed drowned.
Seven years later he is declared legally dead. Emma later marries – not the
father – and is heavily pregnant with a second child, when Aiden returns. He is
under-weight for a sixteen year-old, has an old ankle injury, and seems in
shock. He doesn’t, or can’t, speak. Yet Emma is determined to find out who took
him and what happened to him in those missing years.
I’ve
read lots of psychological thrillers and at times, they merge into one in the
memory, but this book is different. I think I’ll be a long while thinking about
it. Emma is in the throes of ‘baby brain’ and is very emotional, as you can
imagine. She jumps from one suspect to another and we get sucked into her
rationale for those suspicions, even though we can often feel she’s
over-reacting. People try to lean on her and persuade that her son may be
dangerous to the baby. The reader isn’t sure – doesn’t know any more than she
does. The writing style is easy and elegant and I raced through this, dying to
know the answers. A great example of the genre and highly recommended.
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