Silent Child

Silent Child is a psychological thriller by Sarah A. Denzil. Six years after her young son Aiden vanished — presumed drowned when he fell into a drainage pipe near their home — Emma Price has rebuilt a fragile life for herself. Then Aiden is found alive.

He can't or won't speak about where he's been, and as Emma tries to reconnect with the son she thought she'd lost, she becomes increasingly uncertain about what happened to him during his years away, and whether the silent, changed boy in front of her is telling her everything — or anything at all. As questions mount about his disappearance and return, Emma's own reliability as a narrator of her son's story, and her own past, comes under pressure.

The novel is a slow-unraveling small-town mystery built around a mother's need to know the truth and a community's suspicion of a boy who won't explain himself.