in the national Dutch press:
“Tremendous tension, poignant stillness, heart-rendingly true.”
“Bohlmeijer writes with specially fine empathy, giving goose bumps. Highly evocative, spine-chilling, moving.”
“Tension, feeling and depth blend harmonically. The reader is invited to look behind the facts and see
where cause and effect are touching each other. Behind the crime there’s also a vulnerable victim. Sharp
boundaries are fading, to create understanding and forgiveness.”
“The book is exciting due to the wonderful writing; beautiful sentences take us into the emotions and
thoughts of both families.”
Far-reaching actions by only human people
in
authentic and intense on a frightening closeness
between being normal and crazy, fate and free will,
with guilt or second chances and children at stake.
The line between wrong and right
is the thread from a spiders web.
Katie Melua
alone in the house or outside a shop?
When this baby is taken, nobody knows why
- not for ransom but to make up for a secret loss.
The abductor’s actions and the family’s reactions
cross in a highly visual way before they know it.