The Missing Mother
Book description
I place my tiny, newborn baby in the box. A ‘safe haven’, they call it, for unwanted babies. She’ll be warm, someone will find her soon. She’ll be cared for. But not by me. I will always want her, but I can never be her mother. And she can never…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Missing Mother as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I’m drawn to characters whose emotional wounds from childhood affect their determination as adults to make the world a more caring place.
I found Jenna Stone, a dedicated investigative journalist in this book, a particularly appealing character. Abandoned as an infant in an apartment building’s hallway, Jenna doesn’t want any child to experience the same fate and doggedly works to uncover the identity of a mother who has left her abandoned baby in a “safe haven” at her local fire station.
Alarmed by the note the mother left indicating that her baby is “in danger,” Jenna hopes to unravel the…
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