Mitchard, Jacquelyn - The Deep End of the Ocea

'Watch your brother,' says Beth Cappadora to her seven-year-old son, Vincent.  She's checking in at her high school reunion in Chicago, and even with the slowest hotel clerk in America, it's not five minutes before she turns again and asks, 'Where's Ben?'
It's the moment that every mother fears.  For three-year-old Ben is gone.  And no one can find him.
Despite a police search that will turn into a nationwide obsession, Ben has vanished.  His disappearance will leave Beth frozen and will drive a shattering wedge through her marriage to Pat, a man of consummate strength and kindness.  It will turn Vincent into a troubled delinquent who courts danger, hoping to break the bell jar of silence that has fallen over the entire Cappadora family.
And then, one ordinary day, the undreamed of happens: a neighbourhood boy knocks on the door looking for garden work, a boy who does not know them, who will irrevocably twist their lives a second time.

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