The Stolen Baby

By Diney Costeloe,

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EVERY MOTHER'S WORST NIGHTMARE IS ABOUT TO COME TRUE... Based on a gripping and moving true story, The Stolen Baby is the new Second World War novel from bestselling author Diney Costeloe. Plymouth, 1941. As sirens blare all around, the Shawbrook family take refuge in a packed shelter. Bombs have…

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1 author picked The Stolen Baby as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

As a grandmother myself, I felt the pain of the loss of a baby, fortunately only imagined in my case, and the distress of a bereaved mother. Wartime, by its very nature, brings loss of life, and there is no lack of that in this story.

These losses were, for me, later tempered by a storyline that divided my sympathies. A book that tore at my heartstrings without labouring on detailed violence of war.

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