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The Nowhere Child
by Christian White
'Her name is Sammy Went. This photo was taken on her second birthday. Three days later she was gone.'
On a break between teaching photography classes in Melbourne, Kim Leamy is approached by a stranger investigating the disappearance of a little girl from her Kentucky home twenty-eight years earlier. He believes Kim is that girl.
At first she brushes it off, but when Kim scratches the surface of her family history in Australia, questions arise that aren't easily answered. To find the truth, she must travel to Sammy's home of Manson, Kentucky, and into a dark past. As the mystery of Sammy's disappearance unravels and the town's secrets are revealed, this superb novel builds towards an electrifying climax.
This book is White’s debut novel. I have read his others and thought his debut wouldn’t be quite as good. How wrong was I? White is the king of twists and this book did not disappoint. Often stories about abductions are told from the perspective of those left behind so I really enjoyed that most of the story was from Kim’s perspective. The Nowhere Child weaves a story of families, small towns, cults and secrets as it switches between now and then, slowly peeling back the layers of what happened to Sammy Went and her family. Twist after twist keeps you reading and are done so well that the participants of the buddy read I was doing couldn’t help themselves and went ahead and finished the book.
On a break between teaching photography classes in Melbourne, Kim Leamy is approached by a stranger investigating the disappearance of a little girl from her Kentucky home twenty-eight years earlier. He believes Kim is that girl.
At first she brushes it off, but when Kim scratches the surface of her family history in Australia, questions arise that aren't easily answered. To find the truth, she must travel to Sammy's home of Manson, Kentucky, and into a dark past. As the mystery of Sammy's disappearance unravels and the town's secrets are revealed, this superb novel builds towards an electrifying climax.
This book is White’s debut novel. I have read his others and thought his debut wouldn’t be quite as good. How wrong was I? White is the king of twists and this book did not disappoint. Often stories about abductions are told from the perspective of those left behind so I really enjoyed that most of the story was from Kim’s perspective. The Nowhere Child weaves a story of families, small towns, cults and secrets as it switches between now and then, slowly peeling back the layers of what happened to Sammy Went and her family. Twist after twist keeps you reading and are done so well that the participants of the buddy read I was doing couldn’t help themselves and went ahead and finished the book.