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ISBN:	0345547756 (ISBN13: 9780345547750)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	No Child of Mine #1

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From internationally bestselling British author Susan Lewis comes an unflinching, thoroughly suspenseful novel—perfect for readers of Jodi Picoult—about the darkest secrets a family can hide.
 
Alex Lake’s life is centered on helping people. Her job as a social worker in a British seaside town is more than a career: It’s the very essence of who she is. And though there are frustrations, Alex takes to heart the rewards of placing a child in a safe and loving home. But when she encounters three-year-old Ottilie Wade, Alex is completely unprepared for the effect the sweet, shy little girl has on her. Though on the surface Ottilie seems to want for nothing—she’s perfectly healthy and lives in a very nice home—she’s mysteriously silent and asocial. Alex knows that something is not right in the Wade house. And the deeper she looks into the case, the more Alex comes to feel that she and Ottilie are being drawn together by fate.
 
As disturbing evidence mounts and Alex’s superiors seem unwilling to help, Alex knows she will have to risk everything—her job and the life she loves—to save Ottilie. But Alex will also have to wrestle the demons of her own past before she can secure a future for this child in need.

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Title	:	No Child of Mine (No Child of Mine #1)
Author	:	Susan Lewis
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 560 pages
Published	:	May 14th 2013 by Ballantine Books (first published July 5th 2012)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Drama

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No Child Of MineBySusan LewisMy "in a nutshell" summary...Alex is a social worker and sees a child...a quiet little girl...that she can not forget....that she does not forget...that she is incapable of forgetting.My thoughts after reading this book...Oh how I love novels with tons of amazingly mysterious circumstances within them. This novel begins in just that way. At first Alex's life seems deceptively uncomplicated...but that begins to not be the case as the pieces of her life are made clear.

As a retired child welfare social worker, I don't often read social worker stories, but I'm always interested in child protection practice in other counties, here the UK. It has a potentially interesting plot line, but it's way too long and repetitive. Ms. Lewis could have used a good editor.The denoument is ridiculous and fanciful to a professional social worker; The person who needed therapy the most is Alex/Charlotte. A much better story re: child welfare in the UK is P. D. James's Innocent

This book was interesting at the start, but lost the plot towards the end. SPOILER I was not happy with the ending as I believed that Ottilie deserved professional help for all that she'd been through, and for Alex to take her away like that was not the answer, no matter how much she wanted to come to her aid. I wrote an email to the author to express my views, and she flatly replied that there will be a sequel.

I received an ARC from Random House. Yay for free books!Triggers: drug abuse; child and domestic abuse in all its terribleness. Alex is a social worker. Her office is overworked, and she often gets the crap assignments because she can't say no. This sometimes places her in dangerous situations, but she's truly committed to her work. So when an anonymous tip leads her to 3-year-old Ottilie, she goes out on the home visit. Ottilie seems okay, except that she doesn't talk. Her father explains that

The last half was well worth the slow beginning. To think I almost quite reading this after page 50. I am so glad I didn't give up! This book was amazing, but very difficult to read at times. Just so I can get the complaining out of the way - this book is waaaaay too long. At over 500 pages I really felt like a lot of it could have been cut and it would have been much easier to read and quicker to get into. Longer is not always better.OK that being out of the way -The last half of this book was

I received this book from a Goodreads Giveaway.I very much enjoyed this book. The child abuse was difficult to read about, but in a very real world, it does happen. I thought the author did an excellent job explaining it without going into graphic detail.Working as a social worker with children who are neglected or abused can be overwhelming, and I thought the author created Alex, the main character, as someone who was totally believable in that she did have a life outside of her job. There had

No Child of Mine is from Net Galley, Random House-Ballantine. Release date for this republication is May 13, 2013, but you can also get the original 2012 publication.Alex Wade is a social worker and dedicated to her job. When she first sees little Ottilie Wade, she immediately register both concern for the child and a strange attraction.While you definitely want to know the story behind Ottilie, there are sections that are difficult to read as any kind of child abuse always is. The attraction of