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Quand quelques lignes en bas de la colonne des brèves révèlent la découverte d'un squelette de bébé sur un chantier de la banlieue de Londres, la plupart des lecteurs n'y prêtent guère attention. Mais pour trois femmes, cette nouvelle devient impossible à ignorer. Angela revit à travers elle le pire moment de son existence : quarante ans auparavant, on lui a dérobé sa fille à la maternité. Depuis, elle cherche des réponses. Pour Emma, jeune éditrice en free lance, c'est le début de la descente aux enfers, car ce fait divers risque fort de mettre son secret le plus noir à jour et de détruire sa vie à jamais. Quant à Kate, journaliste de renom et avide d'une bonne story, elle flaire là le premier indice d'une affaire qui pourrait bien lui coûter quelques nuits blanches. Car toutes les histoires ne sont pas bonnes à être publiées... Encore moins quand elles font resurgir des vérités que personne ne souhaite connaître.… (plus d'informations)
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The Child par Fiona Barton

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    Where They Found Her par Kimberly McCreight (BookshelfMonstrosity)
    BookshelfMonstrosity: Both revolve around the discovery of the remains of long-dead infants and the intersecting lives of a handful of women.
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This is the first book I've read by Fiona Barton. And, yes, I read #2 in the series before reading #1.

I like the way the story was told - alternating between 4 different women and how their stories aligned. I felt that the ending was a bit rushed, especially the wrapping up of the Will and Al storyline(s).

This story focuses around the bones of a baby found during demolition of a home. Kate Waters is a journalist and is instantly intrigued and wants to follow the story of who was found at the site? As Kate starts investigating, she is drawn into a story that goes back almost 30 years and involves the residents that were living on that road at the time of the burial.
  Cathie_Dyer | Feb 29, 2024 |
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  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
I read "The Widow" when it came out and enjoyed it very much. This story was another great story. I
do not want to give anything away but just like "The Widow" there is surprise that you do not expect. Kate, Emma and Angela tell the story from different points. Kate is the reporter following a story that turns in much more than was thought. The author does a really good job weaving the story together. While part of the story does not seem possible, it has happened. Abduction of a newborn has happened. But the author puts an interesting story around it. I read this in 1 day. I hope the author writes another book with Kate as the reporter. ( )
  b00kdarling87 | Jan 7, 2024 |
An infant's skeleton is found buried in the back garden of a house being demolished. The story follows several women who have an interest in the mystery of the baby's identity and the circumstances that led to its burial: A still-grieving mother whose baby was snatched from the hospital's maternity ward; a troubled woman with a history of psychiatric problems who once lived in the house where the infant was buried; her mother with whom she still has a rocky relationship; an investigative reporter who is determined to solve the mystery and break the story.

The mystery is not entirely predictable, but I was really more interested in the characters as they were revealed. The only real clunker in this story is really unlikely plot twist where a rookie reporter finds out a key piece of information about forensics on Wikipedia that neither the forensic lab nor the police had even considered. Even I had that figured out well in advance.

Still, the story was compelling, and the characters well drawn, and the writing is good enough that I didn't really notice that one character's POV was written in the dreaded First-Person-Present-Tense until I was most of the way through the book.

Audiobook, borrowed from my public library, with an excellent performance by a cast of several.

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  Doodlebug34 | Jan 1, 2024 |
I thoroughly enjoyed The Child by Fiona Barton. This is a book told from the perspectives of the 4 main female characters with flashbacks to a period 20 to 30 years earlier. This style can sometimes confuse a reader until they become familiar enough with the character to easily identify them. What saves The Child from falling into this fate is the short, sharp chapters and good character definition and development.

The momentum builds nicely throughout the book and it is a captivating “who dunnit” with a twist. Was there a murder or not? And who is the victim?

Definitely a must read for those who enjoy a good crime mystery that relies upon investigation and not forensics to solve the crime.
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  MerrylT | May 18, 2023 |
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FIONA BARTON’S debut novel The Widow was a bestseller last year and her second psychological thriller deserves to follow suit...It is gruesomely compelling, mawkish and macabre with abundant twists and turns to keep the interest levels high...The Child is not only a fast-paced missing baby yarn it also casts light on how people can manipulate and lie until someone such as Waters exposes their true natures.
 
Enjoyable as those scenes are, however, the rest of “The Child” should have been sent to the publishing equivalent of Kate’s rewrite desk....“The Child” is a middling and much-too-long suspense story that would have benefited from a ruthless red-pencil. As she did in “The Widow,” Barton relies on multiple points of view to tell (and retell) the larger story of the “Building Site Baby” as the unidentified infant comes to be known....“The Child” isn’t a terrible novel; it’s simply much too much of a just okay one.
 
Some books tell you a great deal, while other books show even more. I'm happy to report that Fiona Barton's second novel, The Child, falls firmly into the second camp....The Child is told from several perspectives — in this case, Kate's, a grieving mother named Angela, and a younger wife named Emma who is afflicted with terrible anxiety. Kate is looking for a story. Angela is looking for closure. Emma isn't sure what she's looking for, but she knows the answer lies in her past as the daughter of a single mother named Jude.. You're in medias res with Kate, Angela, and Emma, and the spliced action-narration is an excellent way of reminding you that no crime affects just one person, and each person it affects has many other people in her life. The frequent, fast chapters (86 of them!) highlight all of those people and their daily routines.
 

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Quand quelques lignes en bas de la colonne des brèves révèlent la découverte d'un squelette de bébé sur un chantier de la banlieue de Londres, la plupart des lecteurs n'y prêtent guère attention. Mais pour trois femmes, cette nouvelle devient impossible à ignorer. Angela revit à travers elle le pire moment de son existence : quarante ans auparavant, on lui a dérobé sa fille à la maternité. Depuis, elle cherche des réponses. Pour Emma, jeune éditrice en free lance, c'est le début de la descente aux enfers, car ce fait divers risque fort de mettre son secret le plus noir à jour et de détruire sa vie à jamais. Quant à Kate, journaliste de renom et avide d'une bonne story, elle flaire là le premier indice d'une affaire qui pourrait bien lui coûter quelques nuits blanches. Car toutes les histoires ne sont pas bonnes à être publiées... Encore moins quand elles font resurgir des vérités que personne ne souhaite connaître.

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