Little Face
by:
Sophie Hannah (author)
Every mother?s nightmare . . .When Alice Fancourt leaves her newborn daughter at home with her husband for the first time since becoming a new mother, she comes home to a horrifying discovery: her child has been swapped with another baby. I n near hysterics, Alice rushes to call the police, but...
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Every mother?s nightmare . . .When Alice Fancourt leaves her newborn daughter at home with her husband for the first time since becoming a new mother, she comes home to a horrifying discovery: her child has been swapped with another baby. I n near hysterics, Alice rushes to call the police, but soon discovers that no one?not even her husband, David?believes her. When the police are called in, Detective Simon Waterhouse is drawn to the lovely Alice but doubts her story and suspects that she is suffering from postpartum depression. Meanwhile, David is growing increasingly hostile and Alice begins to fear that her baby?s disappearance may be linked to his previous wife?s untimely death. Little Face is a chilling look at the lengths to which a mother will go to protect her child and is the remarkable debut of a hugely talented writer.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143114086 (0143114085)
Publish date: September 30th 2008
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 310
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
British Literature,
Mystery,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Suspense,
Psychological Thriller
Series: Spilling CID (#1)
After an evening out Alice returns to her house, but things take a turn for the worse very fast. As she comes back, she insist that the baby isn't hers and someone must have switched them. Her husband believes she must be either mad or lying... A very interesting story. I wanted to find out how ev...
Couldn't put it down but all the characters were all awful human beings. Unsatisfactory ending. Not my normal genre, but my boyfriend's mum lent it to me and I had to read it.
Molto bello... mi ha tenuta in scacco fino all'ultimo capitolo.
A compelling and intriguing mystery but the main characters are repellent. They were diffcult to read about and truly made it difficult to judge the book in a positive light. I kept reading however so my interest in the mystery must have been greater then my distaste for the characters.
Sophie Hannah's "Little Face" is her debut psychological mystery/crime novel that actually presents itself as one story, and comes across completely as another in some veins. There will be people who love this story when it all comes down to the wire, and some who will hate it. The introductory pr...