Little Face - Sophie Hannah Reviews

**Story Summary...** Two weeks after the birth of her daughter Florence, Alice Fancourt returns from a short trip out into her worst nightmare. Whilst her husband has been sleeping, her baby has been swapped and the baby in the cot is not her daughter. Alice is confronted with increasing hostility from her husband who ...  Read the complete review

I have been waiting to read this for almost a year since I first read the blurb, and I was certainly vindicated: it is superb. The story unfolds via two narratives set a week apart in which a race against time develops. In the first chapter, new mum Alice Fancourt describes the horror of arriving home to discover that the baby in the ...  Read the complete review

I recently discovered the author Sophie Hannah after being given this book as a present. I was hooked from the first page and read this in two days! When Alice Fancourt returns home after being out for the first time without her two-week old baby daughter Florence, she realises that the baby daughter she returns home to, having left ...  Read the complete review

Reading the blurb on the back of the book, I was looking forward to reading it, and sure enough it started well. As the book progressed, however, the plot seemed to veer off in odd directions. I realise that part of the narrative was intended to confuse the reader until the end, but there were scenes in it that were never explained nor ...  Read the complete review

I bought this book with no idea of what the works of Sophie Hannah had to offer, though what intrigued me was the mystery that lay behind the cover picture, which was incidentally very well chosen indeed. Often stories don't live up to the covers, though we as buyers are still pulled into buying books based on what they seem to be offering. The ...  Read the complete review

A new novel by Sophie Hannah is cause for great celebration, at least as far as I'm concerned. I loved her three previous novels - "Cordial and Corrosive" (probably my favourite), "Gripless" and "The Superpower of Love" - and am also a big fan of her poetry. So I was absolutely delighted to get my hands on this latest ...  Read the complete review