Kate Waters, the power journalist, is having a monotonous and a bit boring day in her office, when she chances upon the news of a baby's skeletons unearthed from a building site, that's all, nothing more either about the baby's identity or about the baby's mother or how the body came here, and like always, Kate tears that information from the newspaper and puts inside her handbag. And she soon finds herself the keeper of unexpected secrets that erupt in the lives of three women and torn between what she can and cannot tell. Her heartbroken parents were left devastated by the loss.īut there is more to the story, and Kate is drawn house by house into the pasts of the people who once lived in this neighborhood that has given up its greatest mystery. She cobbles together a piece for her newspaper, but at a loss for answers, she can only pose a question: Who is the Building Site Baby?Īs Kate investigates, she unearths connections to a crime that rocked the city decades earlier: A newborn baby was stolen from the maternity ward in a local hospital and was never found. For journalist Kate Waters, it s a story that deserves attention.

The author of the stunning New York Times bestseller The Widow returns with a brand-new novel of twisting psychological suspense.Īs an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers a tiny skeleton, buried for years. Fiona Barton, the British bestselling author, is back with another page-turning and chilling psychological thriller called, The Child that revolves around three women, one our favorite journalist from Barton's previous book, Kate, and two different women, each grieving upon the news of an infant's skeletons recovered from a building site, as one strongly believes that it is her baby stolen the day she gave birth to her baby while the other is terrified about her long buried past has finally come to haunt her, can Kate uncover the mystery behind two women's grief?

The Child by Fiona Barton