In this month’s Bookclub episode, Mary and Beth talk all about The Stolen Child by Carmel Harrington – a gripping, emotional novel that weaves together three timelines across decades of love, loss, and mystery.

From the shocking disappearance of two-year-old Robert on a Mediterranean cruise in 1983, to the lives of two orphan girls in 1970s London, and finally to 2023, where new revelations shake the Murphy family to their core – this story asks haunting questions about family, resilience, and the secrets we carry.

We talk about our reading experience, the characters who captured our hearts (and the ones who broke them), the emotional punches, and the imagery that lingers long after the last page.

As Carmel was our very first guest on Write Club (and our most popular episode to date!), we couldn’t resist revisiting her work. We even play an eerie excerpt from our conversation with her that sets the tone perfectly.

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