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The Midwife's Secret

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ISBN: 9781472272133
AuthorGunnis, Emily
Pub Date20/10/2021
BindingPaperback
Pages400
CountryGBR
Dewey823.92
Quick overview A richly layered, moving and unforgettable novel of two families and the devastating secret that binds them, from the global bestselling author of THE GIRL IN THE LETTER.
€17.12

She shone the torch around and spotted some names written in the wall: Clara, Sara, Megan. Who were these girls and what had they been doing in there? She slowly clicked open the trunk and as she shone her torch in, something caught her eye.

In the corner, a leather-bound book. She opened it on the first page: 'Tessa James, Patient Notes'. She began to read...

When a little girl goes missing from Yew Tree Manor - the same house from which a girl vanished decades before - does the key to the present lie buried even deeper in the past, in the forgotten history of an innocent midwife accused of betrayal? When six-year-old Alice Hilton disappears on New Year's Eve 1979 from Yew Tree Manor, suspicion immediately falls on local boy Bobby James. Bobby claims he knows nothing about it but his family has a grievance against Alice's landowner father. Tragically the child is never found.

Decades later, Willow James, an architect working on a development at Yew Tree Manor, discovers that the land surrounding the house is holding a secret. And when another little girl goes missing from Yew Tree, Willow realises the key to her disappearance lies in the history of the house, and the two families attached to it. A terrible wrong needs to be made right...and to uncover it, Willow must unravel events from 1945, when a midwife was falsely accused of a crime that happened at Yew Tree Manor...

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She shone the torch around and spotted some names written in the wall: Clara, Sara, Megan. Who were these girls and what had they been doing in there? She slowly clicked open the trunk and as she shone her torch in, something caught her eye.

In the corner, a leather-bound book. She opened it on the first page: 'Tessa James, Patient Notes'. She began to read...

When a little girl goes missing from Yew Tree Manor - the same house from which a girl vanished decades before - does the key to the present lie buried even deeper in the past, in the forgotten history of an innocent midwife accused of betrayal? When six-year-old Alice Hilton disappears on New Year's Eve 1979 from Yew Tree Manor, suspicion immediately falls on local boy Bobby James. Bobby claims he knows nothing about it but his family has a grievance against Alice's landowner father. Tragically the child is never found.

Decades later, Willow James, an architect working on a development at Yew Tree Manor, discovers that the land surrounding the house is holding a secret. And when another little girl goes missing from Yew Tree, Willow realises the key to her disappearance lies in the history of the house, and the two families attached to it. A terrible wrong needs to be made right...and to uncover it, Willow must unravel events from 1945, when a midwife was falsely accused of a crime that happened at Yew Tree Manor...

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