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The Only Child: A Novel Audiobook
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“Almost every graduating class had a girl who disappeared …”
A long-closed home for “fallen women” is the site of horrors old and new in this historical thriller from the author of The Botanist’s Daughter.
1949: During the coldest winter Seattle has seen in decades, pregnant sixteen-year-old Brigid Ryan arrives at Fairmile, a home for “fallen women” run by the Catholic Church on a remote island in Puget Sound. She and her baby will disappear before the snow melts.
2013: Ex-cop Frankie Gray is escaping a career in ruins and hoping to reconnect with her teenage daughter, Izzy, while summering with her mother at The Fairmile Inn, soon to be a boutique hotel. But when an elderly nun who worked at the home in its former iteration is found dead in suspicious circumstances and then a tiny skeleton is discovered on the grounds nearby, Frankie goes looking for answers. Then Izzy disappears, and as Frankie races to find her, she turns up a secret that will force her to question her own history and the identity she thought she knew.
Over sixty years separate the disappearances at the Fairmile, but Frankie suspects that they may share the same dark root; in the suspenseful, atmospheric investigation that follows, she finds that the truth is as foggy as the rocky, isolated island on which that darkness thrived.
Atmospheric, compelling, and filled with unexpected twists, The Only Child is an engrossing mystery that turns an unflinching eye at one of the most important social issues not only of the present day, but of earlier eras as well.
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“A great book entertains with a compelling narrative, one that keeps the reader’s attention while weaving in universal truths about the human condition during the best and worst of times. Kayte Nunn’s The Only Child will join Marge Piercy’s Braided Lives, along with films such as Blossoms in the Dust and Vera Drake, as a reminder of what is at stake when the reproductive rights and choices of girls and women are diminished. It is a well-paced story with finely drawn characters—and it’s hard to put down.”
— Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times bestselling author
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“The Only Child is a taut, clever whodunit revolving around the pangs of motherhood and the lengths women will go for their children…Kayte Nunn keeps the stakes high and the characters compelling, making for a fast, fresh, engrossing historical mystery!”
— Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author -
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“The story carries all the elements of a classic gothic tale…that comes with a thrilling twist in the final pages.”
— Daily Telegraph on The Silk House
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About Kayte Nunn
Kayte Nunn is the author of half a dozen novels, including The Botanist’s Daughter which was awarded the 2021 Winston Graham Prize for historical fiction. Her books have been sold into twelve territories. Born in Singapore, she has lived in England, the United States (in the Pacific Northwest), and now lives in the Northern Rivers of NSW, Australia.
About Erica Sullivan
Erica Sullivan is a professional actress of both stage and screen and holds her MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Currently a company member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, she has performed in New York and regionally with such companies as the Lincoln Center, Soho Repertory Theatre, and New Dramatists. She makes her home in Ashland, Oregon, with her family.