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The Stranger in My Home: I thought she was my daughter. I was wrong

I thought she was my daughter. I was wrong.

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The Stranger in My Home: I thought she was my daughter. I was wrong

By: Adele Parks
Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
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The Stranger in My Home is the utterly compelling new contemporary novel from Adele Parks, Sunday Times best-selling author of The State We're In, sure to move, grip and delight her fans along with readers of Liane Moriarty, Jane Shemilt and Lisa Jewell.

When you have everything you dreamed of, there is everything to lose.

Alison is lucky, and she knows it. She has the life she always craved, including a happy home with Jeff and their brilliant, vivacious teenage daughter, Katherine - the absolute centre of Alison's world. Then a knock at the door ends life as they know it.

Fifteen years ago someone else took Alison's baby from the hospital. And now Alison is facing the unthinkable. Her daughter belongs to someone else. What would you do if you discovered your beloved child is not yours?

©2016 Adele Parks (P)2016 Headline Digital Domestic Thrillers Fiction Genre Fiction Psychological Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction
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dragged on a bit in parts but good conclusion in last few chapters, surprising towards the end

satisfying in the end

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aAnother incredible story by Adele Parks.with brilliant writing and a few twists and turns. loved this story!

Amazing!!

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The psychology of being a parent and how our past affects our present.
I started this book with trepidation, I thought it was going to be about court battles over babies, but was pleasantly surprised to find there was no court at all! I actually quite enjoyed it, and although I wasn't particularly surprised by the twist I was sucked in by the drama of it and couldn't put it down towards the end.
Worth a read - not too heavy, not too light!

Better than I was expecting

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I am more than halfway through this book and don't understand how it's a bestseller? The concept is quite interesting but the main character couldn't be any more boring or unlikeable - so self focussed and unattractively obsessed with her daughter. I'd hate to be living in her head with her thoughts which I feel like I am as the book is from her perspective. She has almost zero concern/interest for her biological daughter which seems quite unrealistic to me as a mother.

The narration is just as boring and I find it distracting when the female narrator tries to (badly) put on male character voices.

Perhaps this book is better read rather than listened to as it wouldn't take so long and the narration wouldn't detract from the story.

I'm really struggling to get through this one ...

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