The Child

Fiona Barton 2017

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
grief loss family trauma

Our Take

A baby's skeleton is found during a demolition and the past begins to surface through multiple women's perspectives. Barton understands that the loss of a child is not a single event but a wound that reactivates across decades. The novel's strength is in what each woman has built over the absence.

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