Little face
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"It's every mother's nightmare. The first time Alice Fancourt goes out after their daughter is born, she leaves the two-week-old infant with her husband, David. When she returns only two hours later, she swears the baby in the crib is not her child. Despite her distress, David is adamant that she is wrong." "The police are called to the scene. Detective Constable Simon Waterhouse is sympathetic, but he doubts Alice's story. His superior, Sergeant Charlie Zailer, thinks that Alice must be suffering from some sort of delusion brought on postpartum depression." "With an increasingly hostile and menacing David swearing she must either be mad or lying, how can Alice make the police believe her before it's too late?"--BOOK JACKET.
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I'd read one other Sophie Hannah book before Little Face and remember finding it's plot weak but the description of Little Face persuaded me to try this book despite my previous experience.
Alice Farncourt leaves her newborn baby to go out for a few hours, when she returns she swears the baby in the crib is not her daughter. No one, even her husband believes her. Why would someone take a child and replace it with another? Post natal depression, insanity or is Alice telling the truth?
This book grips from the first chapter, your sense of unease builds throughout as you learn more about Alice and her husband and the matriarch of the family her mother-in-law Vivienne. I just wanted to keep reading to find out more.
I am more of a chick-lit reader, mysteries aren't always my thing but I loved this book. The story was well thought out, planned and meticulous and the characters plausible. It reminded me of Virginia Andrews Flowers In The Attic, that same sense of things in a household being wrong and creepy. A wonderful book.
