Angela gave birth to a girl over 20 years ago, only to have her child stolen out of the hospital room. The POV’s of this story are Kate Emma and Angela, with a 4 th, Jude, having an occasional narration.Īs Kate does her investigation, she will indirectly become involved with the other two ladies. Kate Waters, an investigative reporter, sees the notice about the finding of the “Building Site Baby” and decides to do some investigating. The story revolves around the discovery of a baby’s skeleton on a construction site of a torn down building. But things changed about a ¼ into the story, when it caught hold of me, and I could not let go that being said, I loved The Child. The Child started off a bit slow and somewhat confusing with multiple POV’s and I thought “here we go again”. I have read quite of few psychological thrillers this year, with many of them simply ok reads, with the authors using the same multi character POV’s, which can get confusing. The Child by Fiona Barton is a psychological thriller. 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 Child by Fiona Barton – Review & TourĪmazon / B&N / Kobo / BAM / Book DepositoryĪs an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers a tiny skeleton, buried for years.