Binding: Paperback
Description: Mariah Fredericks's The Lindbergh Nanny is powerful propulsive novel about America's most notorious kidnapping through the eyes of the woman who found herself at the heart of this deadly crime." A masterful blending of fact and fiction that is as compelling as it is entertaining." Nelson De Mille When the most famous toddler in America Charles Lindbergh Jr. is kidnapped from his family home in New Jersey in 1932, the case makes international headlines. Already celebrated for his flight across the Atlantic his father Charles Sr. is the country's golden boy with his wealthy lovely wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh by his side. But there's someone else in their household Betty Gow a formerly obscure young woman now known around the world by another name: the Lindbergh Nanny. A Scottish immigrant deciphering the rules of her new homeland and its East Coast elite Betty finds Colonel Lindbergh eccentric and often odd Mrs. Lindbergh kind yet nervous and Charlie simply a darling. Far from home and bruised from a love affair gone horribly wrong Betty finds comfort in caring for the child and warms to the attentions of handsome sailor Henrik sometimes known as Red. Then Charlie disappears. Suddenly a suspect in the eyes of both the media and the public Betty must find the truth about what really happened that night in order to clear her own name and to find justice for the child she loves." Gripping and elegant The Lindbergh Nanny brings readers into the interior of the twentieth century's most infamous crime." Nina de Gramont New York Times bestselling author of The Christie Affair
Title: The Lindbergh Nanny A Novel
Author(s): Fredericks Mariah
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250888204
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/9/2024
Category: Historical Fiction