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Lost boy found :a novel Kirsten Alexander.

Alexander, Kirsten, (author.).

Summary:

In 1913, on a summer's day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks into the woods and never returns. The boy's mysterious disappearance from the family's lake house makes front-page news in their home town of Opelousas. John Henry and Mary Davenport are wealthy and influential, and will do anything to find their son. For two years, the Davenports search across the South, offer increasingly large rewards and struggle not to give in to despair. Then, at the moment when all hope seems lost, the boy is found in the company of a tramp. But is he truly Sonny Davenport? The circumstances of his discovery raise more questions than answers. And when Grace Mill, an unwed farm worker, travels from Alabama to lay claim to the child, newspapers, townsfolk, even the Davenports' own friends, take sides. As the tramp's kidnapping trial begins, and two desperate mothers fight for ownership of the boy, the people of Opelousas discover that truth is more complicated than they'd ever dreamed ...

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781538700563 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: x, 350 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First Grand Central trade paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2020.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Inspired by the true story that gripped the nation"-- Cover.
Includes reading group guide.
Originally published: North Sydney, NSW : Penguin Random House Australia, 2019.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Subject: Missing children > United States > Louisiana > History > 20th century > Fiction.
Mother and child > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Opelousas (La.) > History > 20th century > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.

Available copies

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Stroud Branch.

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