I Came to Say Goodbye

For fans of Cathy Glass and Stolen by Susan Lewis, I Came to Say Goodbye tells the devastating story of how a family survives when their baby is stolen

Caroline Overington is a bestselling author and journalist who has worked for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian. She is the mother of delightful 13-year-old twins and lives in Bondi with her family, a blue dog and a lizard.

It was a crime that shocked the world. 
 
The CCTV footage shows a young woman pushing through the hospital doors. 
 
She walks into the nursery, picks up a baby and places her carefully in a shopping bag. 
 
She walks out to the car park, towards an old Ford Corolla. For a moment, she holds the child gently against her breast and, with her eyes closed, she smells her. 
 
Then she clips the baby into the car, gets in and drives off. This is where the footage ends. 
 
What happens next will leave a mother devastated, and a little boy adrift in a world he will never understand.

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The photograph shows four smiling children. But look closer and you can tell that one of the boys has been crying. 
 
Weeks later, that little boy is dead. His mother and her boyfriend are in prison for his murder, and his brother and sisters have been fostered to separate families. 
 
No one knows for sure what happened that day, except, possibly, the three remaining children, and they’re not talking. 
 
But the past cannot be buried forever, and years later, when the truth about what happened is revealed, will it bring a final healing? Or will the legacy of fear that the children have lived with for so long, finally destroy them?

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