Owning Jacob - Softcover

Brilliant. One of the best novels I've read in years - Martina Cole on Where there's Smoke

Ben is devastated by the sudden death of his wife and her son, six-year-old Jacob, is a joy to him in spite of the effort his autism involves. But while cleaning out her cupboards Ben discovers a hidden box, and within it, proof that Jacob was never her child: she stole him from a maternity ward. Horrified, Ben immediately sets out to find Jacob s real family. But his mother is dead, and his father is a madman. Jacob can t decide his own future, so Ben must do it for him.