Name: What Was Mine
ISBN: 9781476732350

Helen Klein Ross

"Simply told but deeply affecting, this urgent novel unravels the heartrending yet unsentimental tale of a woman who kidnaps a baby in a superstore--and gets away with it for twenty-one years"--

A Novel

What Was Mine

Nadine 

Ok multi-voice story of a woman stealing a child. It would be difficult for something like this to occur except in remote communities I guess. The transformation of the birth mother into a hippy alternative type was a little unbelievable.

Madisyn Lowe

Lucy Wakefield is a seemingly ordinary woman who does something extraordinary in a desperate moment: she takes a baby girl from a shopping cart and raises her as her own. It's a secret she manages to keep for over two decades -- from her daughter, the babysitter who helped raise her, family, coworkers, and friends. When Lucy's now-grown daughter Mia discovers the devastating truth of her origins, she is overwhelmed by confusion and anger and determines not to speak again to the mother who raised her. She reaches out to her birth mother for a tearful reunion, and Lucy is forced to flee to China to avoid prosecution. What follows is a ripple effect that alters the lives of many and challenges our understanding of the very meaning of motherhood.

What Was Mine A Novel

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