The Shadow Child

The Shadow Child
Rachel Hancox
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Trade Paperback
h216 x 135mm - 400pg
14 Apr 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781529136050
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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 . . . 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.
Rachel Hancox read Medicine and Social and Political Science at Clare College, Cambridge, where she sang in the chapel choir. She qualified as a doctor in 1989, three months after getting married, and has juggled her family, her career and a passion for writing ever since. Rachel worked in Paediatrics and Public Health for twenty years, writing short stories alongside medical text books and policy reports for the NHS, and drafting novels during successive bouts of maternity leave. Attending an Arvon course with her oldest daughter (now a successful novelist herself) prompted her to take writing more seriously, and an MA in Creative Writing followed, completed somewhat hair-raisingly while she was working part-time as an NHS Consultant, helping her husband run a school boarding house for 65 boys, and bringing up five children. As someone once said, she thrives on chaos. Rachel lives in Oxford with her husband, her two younger children, three dogs and a cat. She sings in the Bach Choir, and divides her spare time between cooking, gardening, pottery and knitting.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781529136050
Published: 14 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Century
Publisher: Cornerstone
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 350g
Pages: 400

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