The nowhere child : a novel / Christian White.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250293718
- Physical Description: 371 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Minotaur Books, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2018.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "First published in Australia by Affirm Press"--Title page verso. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Missing children > Investigation > Fiction. Secrecy > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. Photographers > Fiction. Small cities > Fiction. Kentucky > Fiction. Melbourne (Vic.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Suspense fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Pemberton and District Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Pemberton and District Public Library | F WHI (Text) | 31894000533595 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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A young woman's life is turned upside down when she discovers that she may have been abducted in early childhood by her recently deceased mother. - Baker & Taylor
A young woman's life is turned upside down when she discovers that she may have been abducted in early childhood by her recently deceased mother, in a U.S. release of an award-winning debut from Australia. - McMillan Palgrave
âA nervy, soulful, genuinely surprising it-could-happen-to-you thriller â a book to make you peer over your shoulder for days afterwards.ââA.J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
Winner of the Victorian Premierâs Literary Award, The Nowhere Child is screenwriter Christian Whiteâs internationally bestselling debut thriller of psychological suspense about a woman uncovering devastating secrets about her familyâand her very identityâ¦
Kimberly Leamy is a photography teacher in Melbourne, Australia. Twenty-six years earlier, Sammy Went, a two-year old girl vanished from her home in Manson, Kentucky. An American accountant who contacts Kim is convinced she was that child, kidnapped just after her birthday. She cannot believe the woman who raised her, a loving social worker who died of cancer four years ago, crossed international lines to steal a toddler.
On April 3rd, 1990, Jack and Molly Wentâs daughter Sammy disappeared from the inside their Kentucky home. Already estranged since the girlâs birth, the couple drifted further apart as time passed. Jack did his best to raise and protect his other daughter and son while Molly found solace in her faith. The Church of the Light Within, a Pentecostal fundamentalist group who handle poisonous snakes as part of their worship, provided that faith. Without Sammy, the Wents eventually fell apart.
Now, with proof that she and Sammy are in fact the same person, Kim travels to America to reunite with a family she never knew she had. And to solve the mystery of her abductionâa mystery that will take her deep into the dark heart of religious fanaticism where she must fight for her life against those determined to save her soulâ¦