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2000s: Imagine if your child was stolen
The Stolen Child
Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Imagine if your child was stolen
What you need to know before your trail
Zoe and Ollie Morley tried for years to have a baby before turning to adoption and getting the loveliest little girl named Evie. They’ve loved and cherished her since the day she became theirs, their joy only increased when they became pregnant themselves with baby Ben. Ollie returns to his high flying job whilst Zoe stays at home, increasingly frustrated by the fact she can’t paint and do her art like she used to and she resents Ollie for not taking her concerns seriously. Life is good though apart from this and their family seems complete.
Until Evie begins to receive letters and gifts. The sender claims to be her birth father. He has been looking for his daughter. And now he is coming to take her back…
Travel Guide
Ilkley
The author used to live in Ilkley where the book is set and you can tell. The setting is a small town surrounded by moors and fields, perfect for taking babies and children for walks. Perfect for spending a few hours by yourself trying to sort out your head. It’s evoked with such style and care that you feel instantly transported:
The mural is my way of trying to keep calm during the pregnancy and I wanted it be to be finished and perfect before she arrived. It’s on the nursery wall and its’ of Ilkley Moor, where I grew up: The Cow and Calf rocks ar sunrise, a friendly giant called Rombald striding though the purple heather
This book is almost a mini tour of the town with Middleton being where a couple live in the wealthiest part of the town, Panorama Drive is the most exclusive parts of town. The moors, the backstreets and the small town itself.
But it’s the moors which draw you in:
Following the back roads from ilkley – “Along tree-lined road,though narrow snickets carpeted with gold larch needles, past high stone walls and gardens where the last roses of the year bloom”
“We set off diagonally across the moor,towards the archaeological dig and the Twelve Apostles , leaving Ilkley behind”
“The way you can lose yourself on the moor,. Slip silently into a peat bog, we have so little wilderness left but there’s some that’s wild and untamed right here”
Hangingstone Quarry, Ilkley
Booktrailer Review
Susan: @thebooktrailer
Ilkley is the perfect setting for this novel. A taunt thriller that boxes you in with more lies and red herrings than you can shake a stick at. The claustrophobia of a mother dealing with stress of her daughter receiving letters from her birth father….it’s all a bit creepy and mysterious and the mentions of the Yorkshire Dales and the moorland just cranks it al up a notch.
The setting is also beautiful described creating a frame around a compelling mystery. I had to dig on those moors to uncover the secret of the STolen Child and you’ll be sweating by the end but it’s totally worth it!
I’d not read this author before but that has now changed and I have bought her first and will be getting her next one too!
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Stolen Child
Author/Guide: Sanjida Kay Destination: Ilkley Departure Time: 2000s
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