A review by lizella
Little Face by Sophie Hannah

3.0

Little Face keeps the reader guessing who is telling the truth and who is lying or maybe even a bit unhinged in a dysfunctional and controlling family. Alice is a new mother that goes out for the first time shortly after her daughter’s birth, only to come back to find that the door is unlocked and her sleeping husband has left their child unattended. Alice swears that her baby has been replaced by a stranger’s baby and frantically calls the police. Everything doesn’t add up as the story unfolds – her husband’s ex-wife was brutally murdered, her mother-in-law is extremely controlling, and her husband shows a dark, sadistic side toward her after her daughter’s “disappearance.” The story is told from a number of characters’ perspectives, piecing together the puzzle disjointedly to maintain suspense.

My only issue with this book was the with the level of sadism that Alice put up with from her husband under her mother-in-law’s roof. It was had to read passages where she was made into such a helpless victim where she should have felt the safest.