I Came to Say Goodbye
It was a crime that shocked the world.The CCTV footage shows a young woman pushing through the hospital doors. She walks into the nursery, picks up a baby and places her carefully in a shopping bag. She walks out to the car park, towards an old Ford Corolla. For a moment, she holds the child...
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It was a crime that shocked the world.The CCTV footage shows a young woman pushing through the hospital doors. She walks into the nursery, picks up a baby and places her carefully in a shopping bag. She walks out to the car park, towards an old Ford Corolla. For a moment, she holds the child gently against her breast and, with her eyes closed, she smells her. Then she clips the baby into the car, gets in and drives off. This is where the footage ends.What happens next will leave a mother devastated, and a little boy adrift in a world he will never understand.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00D48BT1E
Publish date: September 26th 2013
Publisher: Cornerstone Digital
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
I wasn't sure about this book at first, I was afraid the narrator was going to be difficult to read. But just 10% in, I was completely hooked. I read it in just 7hrs, during a long-haul flight; no TV/movies, my Kindle propped by my in-flight meal, I was totally absorbed. Although set in Australia,...
This review originally appeared at http://bellesbookshelf.blogspot.com/When I grow up, I want to be Caroline Overington (or something very like her).She's an Aussie journalist/author/mother who speaks with such poise and intelligence in interviews, and who uses the same poise and intelligence in her...
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