The Midwife's Secret

A girl vanished from Yew Tree Manor

Decades later, history repeats itself

From the internationally bestselling author of THE GIRL IN THE LETTER comes a heart wrenching story of love, loyalty, and devastating family secrets that readers are spellbound by:
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It all began with a midwife’s secret…

a secret that once uncovered, could free two families from the bitter tragedy that binds them

1969 On New Year’s Eve, while the Hiltons of Yew Tree Manor prepare to host the party of the season, their little girl disappears. Suspicion falls on Bobby James, a young farmhand and the last person to see Alice before she vanished. Bobby protests his innocence, but he is sent away. Alice is never found.

Present day Architect Willow James is working on a development at Yew Tree when she discovers the land holds a secret. As she begins to dig deep into the past, she uncovers a web of injustice. And when another child goes missing, Willow knows the only way to stop history repeating itself is to right a terrible wrong…

Does the key to the present lie buried even deeper in the past, in the forgotten history of an innocent midwife accused by a family of shocking betrayal?
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‘Compelling, twisty, heart-wrenching… A novel that stays with you. I was gripped’ Sophie Kinsella
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‘Loss, betrayal and a decades-old secret… BRILLIANT’ Heat magazine