The child by Fiona Barton is a novel about 4 woman who each have different stories.

It begins with
Emma, a woman who is struggling with mental illness. Married to her former college professor and
working as an editor for celebrity memoirs she constantly relives a past that tends to overwhelm her.
Kate,the second woman who is a journalist at the Daily post at,a London newspaper,finds a small
piece from a competing paper with its headline “Baby’s Body Found.” She believes she has found the
big scoop she is looking for in the piece about a baby’s skeleton unearthed while contractors were
demolishing old houses.
The last woman is Angela, who's getting ready for the birthday of her baby who was kidnapped from
the hospital many years ago and was never seen again. It’s been decades since the abduction, and she’s
married with two other children, but of course she’s never forgotten the infant she’d had for less than
twenty-four hours.
Jude is Emma's mother who has her own emotional bagadge .She and her daughter once had a close
relationship, but that ended when Jude met Will and determined that he was more important to her
than her own daughter. After years of separation, the mother and daughter have reconciled, but their ,
tense relationship always leaves one or both unhappy or angry.
The book follows the paths of these four women over a period of a week. The story of the Building Site
Baby has grabbed Kate, and she gets permission from her reluctant editor to go to the neighborhood
where the corpse was found and try to interview any people still living there who had been residents at
the time the baby was believed to have been buried.
Kate sees Bob Sparkes, a police detective she met while covering another story. She tells him about her
interest in the baby, and Bob is quickly drawn into the story because of his own interest in missing
children. Now, hoping for some assistance from the police, Kate is even more eager to find out the truth
about the infant who has been buried for years.

In conclusion, everyone should read this book because it teaches us to never lose hope and it’s truly a
heart touching story