Stone Mothers Barbara Nadel author of The List of

author of The List of Suspicious Things

becoming the kernel for this enthralling and emotive novel

September 1939

and the darkest elements of contemporary society — where our most terrible secrets are hidden in plain sight

Stone Mothers Barbara Nadel author of The List of'I heard the swish of falling paper. I grazed my knuckles retrieving a beige folder, its grubby white ribbon loose. Looping doctor's handwriting. Addresses. Dates. Names. Photographs! I had found the patients whose notes would bring the past back to life.' A lifetime ago, a patient escaped Nazareth mental asylum. They covered their tracks carefully. Or so they thought. Thirty years ago, Marianne Smy committed a crime then fled from her home to leave