The Shadow Child

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A pacy reading group novel about family secrets and trauma, for fans of Eve Chase and Rachel Joyce Cath and Jim are a happily married couple whose lives are completely upended when their teenage daughter, Emma, walks out and never contacts them again. They have no idea where she is, nor why she left, nor even whether she is safe. They are devastated, yet must somehow continue to live. A year later they use a small inheritance to buy a house to rent out, an almost perfect terraced house quite unlike anything they ever had when younger. And into this house move a recently married couple who remind Cath and Jim of themselves at a time when they were full of hope, before their lives went wrong. But these two young people also have traumas in their past which, like Jim and Cath, they cannot acknowledge, not even to each other; secrets that have the power to destroy them. The Shadow Child is a book of hope and loss, of coming to terms with trauma and learning to love and to live again. Most of all, it's a book about how you can never quite escape the shadows of your past, especially when those shadows just happen to be children ...

Author Bio

Rachel Hancox read Medicine and Social and Political Science at Cambridge, qualified as a doctor three months after getting married, and has juggled her family, her career and a passion for writing ever since.


She worked in Paediatrics and Public Health for twenty years, writing short stories alongside NHS policy reports, and drafting novels during successive bouts of maternity leave.


Rachel loves singing, cooking, gardening and pottery, and has five children, three dogs and a cat. As someone once said, she thrives on chaos. She lives in Oxford with her husband and youngest children.