Library Love Fest has a ton of love for The Child Finder—a beautifully rendered mystery of a missing child and the woman hired to find her. But this story is also a meditation on what makes a family, and author Rene Denfeld has a personal connection to such a tale. Denfeld recently shared her story of adopting three foster children in a Modern Love piece for the New York Times, an experience that inherently informed her characters in The Child Finder.
But we here at LLF aren't the only ones who've fallen in love with this novel; check out these great reviews:
“Intense…. Innovative… Heartbreaking, surprising…. The conclusion will leave readers breathless.” —Publishers Weekly
“Rene Denfeld has a gift for shining bright light in dark places. The Child Finder is a gorgeous, haunting gem of a novel. Raw and real yet wrapped in a fairy tale, as lovely and as chilling as the snow.” —Erin Morgenstern, New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus
“A darkly luminous story of resilience and the deeply human instinct for survival, for love. Blending the magical thinking of childhood, of fairy tales, dreams, memories and nightmares, The Child Finder is a terrifying and ultimately uplifting novel that demands to be consumed and then once inside you–lingers…” —A.M. Homes, author of May We Be Forgiven
The Child Finder was also just voted as one of the best books of September by librarians across the country through LibraryReads, so this is definitely a title you won't want to miss. You can request the egalley now on Edelweiss to dive into this thrilling and moving tale.
-Amanda