When Kim Leamy was relaxing and enjoying a coffee before teaching a photography class at a TAFE college in Melbourne, Australia, she little realised that her life, as she knew it, was about to change. A man approached her and showed her a photograph of two year old Sammy Went who disappeared from her home in Manson, Kentucky, USA, twenty-eight years previously. He suggested that Kim and Sammy were the same person. It was later revealed that DNA tests showed that Kim and this man were siblings. Kim's mother had died some years before which left her step father, Dean, as the only person who might provide answers, however he was reluctant to provide information. Kim therefore decided to go to Manson, Kentucky, to try and discover the truth about her family.
The Nowhere Child by Christain White tells the story of Kim's quest to find out who she really is via alternating chapters, written in the present and in the past, until the true events are finally revealed. In Manson Kim discovered a disfunctional family - a brother, Stuart, who spent much of his life looking for Sammy; a sister, Emily, who believed that Sammy had died; a mother whose life revolved around the activities of a religious sect; and a father who had established a new life with a new partner. As Kim gradually discovered the truth about her previous life and her family, her life was threatened and past crimes revealed.
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