The Shadow Child - Hancox, Rachel
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Eighteen-year-old Emma has loving parents, a happy home life, and a promising future ahead of her. So why, one morning, does she leave home without a trace? Her parents Cath and Jim are devastated. They have no idea why Emma left, where she is - or even whether she is still alive. A year passes, and the couple are still coping with Emma's absence, not to mention all of the unanswered questions she left behind. What Cath and Jim cannot know is that, close by, Emma is also struggling with her new life - in particular, with the trauma that caused her to run away in the first place. But the three…mehr

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Eighteen-year-old Emma has loving parents, a happy home life, and a promising future ahead of her. So why, one morning, does she leave home without a trace? Her parents Cath and Jim are devastated. They have no idea why Emma left, where she is - or even whether she is still alive. A year passes, and the couple are still coping with Emma's absence, not to mention all of the unanswered questions she left behind. What Cath and Jim cannot know is that, close by, Emma is also struggling with her new life - in particular, with the trauma that caused her to run away in the first place. But the three of them must realise that, in order to trust each other once again, they have to come to terms with the secrets of their pasts; secrets that have been hidden for years ... Secrets that have the power to destroy them. The Shadow Child is a book of hope and reconciliation, of coming to terms with trauma and learning to love again. Most of all, it's about how you can never quite escape from the shadows of your past - especially when one of those shadows is a child ...
Autorenporträt
Rachel Hancox read Medicine and Social and Political Science at Cambridge, qualified as a doctor three months after getting married, and has juggled her family, her career and a passion for writing ever since. She worked in Paediatrics and Public Health for twenty years, writing short stories alongside NHS policy reports, and drafting novels during successive bouts of maternity leave. She loves singing, cooking, gardening and pottery, and has five children, three dogs and a cat. As someone once said, she thrives on chaos. She lives in Oxford with her husband and youngest children.