The Nowhere Child

· HarperCollins
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Finding her is just the start...

A dark and gripping debut psychological thriller that won the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, previously won by THE DRY and THE ROSIE PROJECT.

‘Nervy, soulful, genuinely surprising’ A. J. Finn, bestselling author THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW

‘One of the best books I have ever read’ *****

‘Well wow! I didn’t see THAT twist coming!!’ *****

‘I lost sleep over this book’ *****

One photograph is all it takes to turn your world upside down.

You stare at the picture. It shows a missing child who was abducted from her Kentucky home twenty years ago.

But the kidnapped child doesn’t just look like you; she is you...

Your real name is Sammy Went – and the people you thought were family have been lying to you all your life.

But what really happened all those years ago? And how far would you go for the truth?

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4.5
16 reviews
Caroline Price
August 10, 2020
The Nowhere Child by Christian White It’s hard to believe that The Nowhere Child is Christian White's debut novel, it's an amazing book and the Australian author writes with consummate skill. The plot revolves around a 26 year old unsolved child abduction case which happened when 2 year old Sammy Went was removed from her home in Kentucky. All these years later Australian, Kimberley Leamy, a photography teacher from Melbourne, is absolutely knocked sideways when an American accountant contacts her convinced that Kimberley is his daughter, Sammy! This would mean that the much loved and loving Social Worker who had reared her and had died four years before from cancer, had travelled thousands of miles across the world to steal a toddler! This novel puts a whole new spin on the psychological suspense genre and I guarantee that once you start reading, you will find it incredibly difficult to stop. Very, VERY highly recommended is all I can say.
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Jeannette Butcher
November 23, 2019
The twists and turns of this story is a must for anyone who likes mysteries. A few pages in and I was hooked a brilliant read.
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Andrea Ashurst
September 15, 2019
A fantastic book. Did not want to finish it. Highly recommend
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About the author

Christian White is an internationally bestselling and award-winning Australian author and screenwriter. His debut novel, The Nowhere Child, won the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, which was previously won by The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion and The Dry by Jane Harper. Screen rights were quickly acquired by Anonymous Content and Carver Films. Christian also co-wrote Relic, a feature film starring Emily Mortimer. He lives in Melbourne with his wife and their adopted greyhound.

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