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Title Statement | The midwife's secret / Emily Gunnis. |
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Author | Gunnis, Emily |
Publication | London, England: Headline Review,2021. |
Extent of Item | 386 pages |
ISBN | 9781472272041 1472272048 |
Other Number | 4170457 |
General Notes | Includes reading group questions. |
Summary | 1969. On New Year's Eve, while the Hiltons of Yew Tree Manor prepare to host the party of the season, their little girl disappears. Suspicion falls on Bobby James, a young farmhand and the last person to see Alice before she vanished. Bobby protests his innocence, but he is sent away. Alice is never found. Present day. Architect Willow James is working on a development at Yew Tree when she discovers the land holds a secret. As she begins to dig deep into the past, she uncovers a web of injustice. And when another child goes missing, Willow knows the only way to stop history repeating itself is to right a terrible wrong. For decades the fates of the Hilton and James families have been entwined in the grounds of Yew Tree Manor. It all began with a midwife's secret, long buried but if uncovered could save them from the bitter tragedy that binds them. And prove the key that will free them all... |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Missing children--Fiction |
Secrecy--Fiction | |
Midwives--Fiction | |
Nineteen sixties--Fiction | |
Families--Fiction | |
By Location | Sussex (England)--Fiction |
By Genre | Mystery fiction |
Historical fiction |