The Good Bad Girl Novel

“I wished my daughter away, and now someone has taken her. I whisper her name. Then I scream it. People stop and stare at me, and I feel like I can’t breathe. Life resumes its noise. I start running, despair filling me, searching for any trace of the child or the person who took her. I see a woman carrying a child and feel anger, then relief, then shame when I realize it’s not her. I apologize and keep running, continuing to search and scream her name even though she’s too small to answer. People stare, and I don’t care. I have to find her, I need her, I love her. She’s mine and I’m hers. I’ll do anything for her. I’ll never think bad thoughts about her again. But she’s gone. Twenty years after a child was taken from her stroller, a woman is killed in a nursing home. The crimes are somehow connected. And the girl who always thought herself a bad good girl might hold the key to uncovering the truth, because sometimes bad things happen to good people, forcing good people to do bad things.”

author name:

Alice Finney

Book genre:

Translated novel

Publication date:

2024