This novel was inspired by the disappearance of a 4 year old back in 1913. Sonny was the son of one of the small community’s richest and most prominent families who searched him for years. At the same time, a poor servant girl entrusted her son to a vagrant friend on his travels while she gave birth to a second child.
When the vagrant is discovered with a small boy, it is assumed that the boy is Sonny. And that’s when the pages start turning rapidly! The rich family claims the boy is Sonny. The girl claims him as her own - and the community takes sides.
This is a thoroughly engrossing tale - the kind that you carry around and take every opportunity to read! Very well written, great characters, well-described locales, fast pace!
