The tale of a child stolen from its cot is full of suspense but promises more than it deliversIt’s the stuff of every parent’s nightmare. Anne and Marco Conti’s babysitter cancels at the final minute. Invited to their next-door neighbours’ for dinner,they choose their six-month-old baby, Cora, and will be fine asleep in her cot at home alone,if they check on her at half-hour intervals and have a baby monitor running.
Anne, in the middle of postnatal depression and watching her husband flirt, or doesn’t really want to be there,knows they shouldn’t have left the child alone. “What kind of mother does such a thing? She feels the familiar agony set in – she is not a pleasurable mother.” Some time after 1am, she persuades a drunk Marco to leave, and they return home to an open front door,Cora not in her cot, and the discontinuance of their life as they know it.
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Source: theguardian.com