Description
Betty Gow is known by another name: the Lindbergh Nanny. When toddler Charles Lindbergh Jr. is kidnapped from his parents' weekend home in Hopewell, New Jersey in 1932, his parents are frantic, his grandmother devastated, and the media rabid. Betty, amid the maelstrom and named a suspect herself, is determined to find out who has taken him.
Charles Lindbergh was already famous for his flight across the Atlantic—the golden boy of America, with his wealthy and lovely wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, beside him—when Betty joined the household to look after little Charlie. A Scottish immigrant deciphering the rules of her new homeland and its East Coast elite, Betty finds Col. 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.
But when Charlie is taken from the family home, at a time when no one but a handful of Lindbergh servants could have known he was there, everything changes. A suspect in the eyes of both the media and public herself, Betty must find the truth in order to clear her own name—and to find justice for the child she loves.
Verna Stokes @vcorkery_570
January 24, 2023
5
This book was purchased for my husband. He enjoyed it. He likes the historical events as well as the glossary at the end with more specifics. It didn't take him long to read it either. Held his interest from the beginning. He highly recommends the book.