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The cradlePatrick Somerville

The cradle

2009203 pages
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Early one summer morning, Matthew Bishop kisses his still-sleeping wife Marissa, gets dressed and eases his truck through Milwaukee, bound for the highway. His wife, pregnant with their first child, has asked him to find the antique cradle taken years before by her mother Caroline when she abandoned Marissa, never to contact her daughter again. Soon to be a mother herself, Marissa now dreams of nothing else but bringing her baby home to the cradle she herself slept in. His wife does not know-does not want to know-where her mother lives, but Matt has an address for Caroline's sister near by…

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2 editions
  • Ebook · English · 2009
    Little, Brown and Company · 9780316072632
  • Other · English · 2009
    Little, Brown · 203 pages · 9780316036122
FictionMarried peoplePregnant womenFiction, family lifeFiction, generalWisconsin, fictionFamily secretsMothers and daughters