Not Your Child

<h2><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A heartbreaking story of motherhood and the everlasting bond between mother and daughter - perfect for those who love Jodi Picoult!</span></h2><p><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>I found you because I wanted to tell you. Jack is with someone else. He's got no intention of sending for you or the kiddie or seeing you ever again. Don't try to contact him you'll never find him.</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>All it takes is one message for Gemma's life to fall apart. A confirmation of all she's feared these last few months. Jack was supposed to be preparing for their new start in Australia building their home building their </span><em style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>life</em><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> together. And now this. Gone. Without a trace. Leaving their perfect world - all that their two-year-old daughter Poppy knows and cherishes - shattered.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Crystal comes into Gemma's life at the opportune moment. This new friend who's been through it before who knows how it feels for all of your hopes and dreams to suddenly implode who wants to help who will do </span><em style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>anything</em><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Crystal loves Poppy. And Poppy loves Crystal. The minute they meet it's as if all of the heartbreak over her dad leaving dissipates. Poppy feels whole again. And in a way so does Gemma.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But what starts as a small kernel of jealousy soon grows into a larger sense of unease. Who is this woman who's so obsessed with her daughter? And why does it feel like there's something she's not telling her?</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A powerful and emotional women's fiction novel about motherhood friendship and just how far we're willing to go for the ones we love perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult Emma Robinson and Kate Hewitt.</strong></p><h2><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Praise for Sheila Norton:</span></h2><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>'A </span><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>well-crafted and brilliantly suspenseful</strong><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> novel that kept me guessing until the end.' </span><em style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Jo Bartlett</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>'</span><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Loved this book!!!!!</strong><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>... Addictive. There was no way I was putting it down I literally started reading the book around 10am and couldn't put it down until around 4am. Hahaha I'm so glad it was the weekend!!!!... I definitely recommend it!!!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ </span><em style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Reader review</em></p>