Can you imagine being twenty-one years old and discovering the mother who raised you committed a crime so she could be your mother?
Lucy Wakefield desperately wants to be a mother. Her desire for motherhood is so powerful it drives a wedge between her and her husband resulting in a divorce. As time goes on, Lucy is so consumed with this desire that she does the unthinkable. She kidnaps a four-month old baby from a shopping cart in a local department store, and she gets away with it.
What Was Mine by Helen Klein Ross is a suspenseful, page-turner that will keep you reading late into the night. I highly recommend reading this book. The chapters are short and are told from the points of view of different characters evoking many different emotions in the reader. I felt sympathy and anger towards Lucy. I felt sympathy for Marilyn, the baby’s birth mother, and I wanted her to get the revenge she deserved. I was hopeful the baby would be reunited with her birth parents, but the circumstances were much different.
Even though this book is mostly about a kidnapping, it’s also about love, loss, sympathy, anger, desperation, and forgiveness. If you haven’t yet read, What Was Mine, add it to your “To Be Read List”. This is one you don’t want to miss!
Availability: Book Rating: ***** Stars (I loved it) Reviewer: Crystal, Branch Librarian
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What Was Mine
GENRE: First Person Narratives; Psychological Fiction THEME: Maybe Baby (There are many ways to start a family. Characters in these novels consider pregnancy, fertility treatments, adoption, and the initial choice to begin a family.) CHARACTER: Flawed STORYLINE: Character-Driven SUBJECTS: Deception; Family Secrets; Kidnapping; Life Change Events; Mothers & Daughters
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