Helen Klein Ross

A suspenseful, moving look at twisted maternal love and the limits of forgiveness

Not only a terrific, spellbinding read but a fascinating meditation on the choices we make and the way we love.

Ross crafts a surprisingly sensitive meditation on the definitions of family and motherhood around a ripped-from-the-tabloids story.

A compelling and moving story that asks many questions about family, love, and justice… Moving at a hard-to-put-down, breathless pace, this is suspenseful fiction at its best.

“like Emma Donoghue with Room…takes a shocking premise and uses it to illuminate our human condition. A writer of compelling lucidity and vivid precision, she has compassion for all her characters."

Ross brings an entirely new twist to the usual abduction story. Fans of Gillian Flynn and Maria Semple will enjoy the intensely introspective Someone's Else's Child.

"Helen Klein Ross has written a truly brilliant book. I’m obsessed by the change this book made in my thinking of what is, and what is not, forgivable." –

Abigail Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of A Three Dog Life

“Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous, and always riveting, ...masterfully makes you question where your sympathy should lie at every turn. I couldn’t put down this fast-paced, fascinating psychological study of motherhood."

“Helen Klein Ross pulled me into her intimate tale of loss, love, redemption, and forgiveness that had me turning pages long into the night.

Some people will go to any lengths to have a baby... 
 
Lucy Wakefield wants a child more than anything. So when she finds a seemingly abandoned baby in a store, she sees it as a sign. She doesn't mean for it to go as far it does. 
 
Little does she realise the impact her reckless decision will have on the heartbroken family she leaves in her wake – or on the daughter she raises as her own. 
 
Mia Wakefield has always known she was adopted, but now she is about to discover the devastating secret of her birth – and the lengths her mother went to...

Helen Klein Ross

Praise for Someone Else's Child

A suspenseful, moving look at twisted maternal love and the limits of forgiveness

Not only a terrific, spellbinding read but a fascinating meditation on the choices we make and the way we love.

Ross crafts a surprisingly sensitive meditation on the definitions of family and motherhood around a ripped-from-the-tabloids story.

A suspenseful, moving look at twisted maternal love and the limits of forgiveness

Not only a terrific, spellbinding read but a fascinating meditation on the choices we make and the way we love.

Ross crafts a surprisingly sensitive meditation on the definitions of family and motherhood around a ripped-from-the-tabloids story.

A suspenseful, moving look at twisted maternal love and the limits of forgiveness

Not only a terrific, spellbinding read but a fascinating meditation on the choices we make and the way we love.

Ross crafts a surprisingly sensitive meditation on the definitions of family and motherhood around a ripped-from-the-tabloids story.

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