Book review: The Cry, By Helen FitzGerald

 

Emma Hagestadt
Thursday 03 October 2013 22:57 BST
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Taking their newborn Noah on a long-haul flight from Glasgow to Melbourne is Joanna and Alistair's first mistake; closely followed by packing an outsized bottle of Calpol that's confiscated by security.

For eight straight hours baby Noah wails, head-butts his mother and refuses to sleep. Mean-while his father happily naps. Then, at the destination, something much worse happens – Noah is apparently snatched from the couple's hire car.

There are echoes of the Baby Dingo case, but Fitzgerald's punchy thriller fleshes out new circles of parental hell.

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