num_pages: 363
description: In 1982 Victorian police were called to a home on a housing estate an hour west of Melbourne. There they found a five-year-old boy lying on the carpet. There were no obvious signs of trauma but the child Jacob died the next day.The story made the headlines and hundreds attended the funeral. Few people were surprised when the boys mother and her boyfriend went to prison for the crime. Police declared themselves satisfied with the result saying there was no doubt that justice had been done.And yet for years rumours swept the estate and clung like cobwebs to the long-vacant house: there had been a cover-up. The real perpetrator at least according to local gossip was the boy's six-year-old sister LaurenTwenty years on Lauren has created a new life for herself but details of Jacobs death begin to resurface and the story again makes the newspapers. As Lauren struggles with the ghosts of her childhood it seems only a matter of time before the past catches up with her.
language: English
title: Ghost Child
publisher: Bantam