How lucky for us readers-McCreight has once again proven herself to be an insightful writer capable of taking us on a hell of a ride.” “A roller-coaster of a novel, with finely drawn characters whose lives unravel when a dead newborn is found in their affluent college town-and the past refuses to stay hidden. An April 2015 Barbara’s Pick for Library Journal.Barnes and Noble Best Mystery of the Month.And that-sooner or later-the past catches up to all of us. That the very worst crimes are committed against those we love. Told from the perspectives of Molly, Barbara, and Sandy, Kimberly McCreight’s taut and profoundly moving novel unwinds the tangled truth about the baby’s death, revealing that these three women have far more in common than they realized. Meanwhile, Sandy, a high school dropout, searches for her volatile and now missing mother, and PTA president Barbara struggles to help her young son, who’s suddenly having disturbing outbursts. But the bigger threat comes when Molly unearths some of Ridgedale’s darkest secrets. When freelance journalist, and recent Ridgedale transplant, Molly Anderson is unexpectedly called upon to cover the story for the Ridgedale Reader, it’s a risk, given the severe depression that followed the loss of her own baby. No one knows who the baby is, or how her body ended up out there. At the end of a long winter in well-to-do Ridgedale, New Jersey, the body of an infant is discovered in the woods near the town’s prestigious university campus.
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