What Was Mine

';A suspenseful, moving look at twisted maternal love and the limits of forgiveness.' People ';Not only a terrific, spellbinding read but a fascinating meditation on the choices we make and the way we love.' Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author Simply told but deeply affecting, in the bestselling tradition of Alice McDermott and Tom Perrotta, this urgent novel unravels the heartrending yet unsentimental tale of a woman who kidnaps a baby in a superstoreand gets away with it for twenty-one years. Lucy Wakefield is a seemingly ordinary woman who does something extraordinary in a desperate moment: she takes a baby girl from a shopping cart and raises her as her own. Its a secret she manages to keep for over two decadesfrom her daughter, the babysitter who helped raise her, family, coworkers, and friends. When Lucys now-grown daughter Mia discovers the devastating truth of her origins, she is overwhelmed by