Review - Stolen Child - Laura Elliot

Stolen Child by Laura Elliot

My rating: 3 of 5 stars




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It's every mother's worst nightmare.  Carla Kelly wakes to find her two-day-old baby daughter's cot empty.  Isobel has been taken.

Susanne Dowling has been keeping a terrible secret following her fifth agonising miscarriage. But when at last she welcomes her new baby daughter into her life nothing else matters. They will both be safe as long as Susanne keeps her daughter close and confesses her lie to no one. Ever.

Carla, a top model, launches a fierce national campaign to find her child – but the trail is cold. She receives threats and recriminations from strangers – she flaunted her pregnancy in the media, she cashed in on it, she deserves everything she gets – and, encouraged by well-meaning loved ones to move on, she begins to fall apart.

But one letter Carla receives stands out from the rest. It offers support from a surprising quarter. And it sets in to motion a chain of events that opens wounds and exposes shocking secrets from Carla’s past that suggest what happened to her daughter was revenge a long time planned.

And it will bring Carla unknowingly close to the stolen daughter she has sworn she will do anything to get back …

I enjoyed this book but some of it didn't seem credible to me. The time line was also a bit confusing at first until I got the hang of it. I did feel it explored the complex feelings and reactions of those involved particularly towards the end.