The Day I Lost You
A Novel
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
The internationally bestselling author of The Woman on the Ledge returns with a twisty thriller about a missing child and three adults whose shared secrets and hidden history could prove deadly.
“I need to report a crime. My baby has been stolen.”
All Lauren wants is a new life in Spain. She’s suffered an unimaginable loss, but at last she has found a home in the pretty seaside town of Mantilla de Mar. Everyone deserves a new start, and Lauren needs to put her past firmly behind her.
Hope has everything: an interesting career as a therapist, an attractive husband, a dream home in the countryside - and, finally, the baby she always longed for. Sam. Her beautiful boy.
But Sam has gone missing.
So when the police tell her that a woman has been found in Spain with a child matching Sam’s description, Hope thinks that her nightmare might be coming to an end.
But Lauren is insisting Sam is her baby. She even has his passport and birth certificate to prove it.
So what really happened to Baby Sam? And who still has secrets to hide?
One child. Two mothers. And a past that won’t let them go.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Two women lay claim to the same child in this whiplash-inducing domestic suspense novel from Mancini (The Woman on the Ledge). Lauren Hopwood is living in Mantilla de Mar, Spain, with her toddler, Sam, when police come knocking on her door. According to Hope Dunsmore and her husband, Andrew Faris, Sam is actually their son, whom Lauren kidnapped from the couple's home in the English village of Chorley Common. Lauren maintains that Sam is in fact her child, producing a birth certificate and passport as evidence, but as soon as the police leave, she flees with Sam, deeming Mantilla de Mar "no longer safe." As cracks emerge in Hope and Andrew's story of a soured surrogacy agreement, investigators start to suspect that "something more worrying" happened between the parties. Meanwhile, neither side can risk the truth coming out, lest they all lose contact with Sam forever. Mancini's twisty and twisted tale unspools in a pinwheeling narrative that explores each character's fraught backstory before abruptly catapulting to a far-fetched yet undeniably gratifying finale. For all its jerky pacing and overheated reveals, readers will race through this.
