The Secret Baby Room

D.D.Johnston is ’one of this country’s most principled novelists & also one of the most versatile and talented’ - The Morning Star. Discover this bravest new British writing talent, taking on themes of poverty and abuse in gritty urban Manchester. The book is a vivid journey into the life of Clare, her own career stalled to follow her husband, longing for a child. She has had a miscarriage. On a high floor of an abandoned tower block she sees a woman feeding a baby. Her investigations take her into childhood trauma, ancient abuse, corruption at the highest level. It’s a personal journey in which a woman takes on the world to save it.