![]() ![]() Complicated by the fact that DNA was not a commonplace identifying tool until the later 1980s, the action moves back and forth over the years as the two families tussle over the child, to the present day of the book, which is 1998. Crédule Grand Duc, a private investigator hired by the de Carvilles to prove the child is their Lyse-Rose and not Emilie Vitral, has finally determined the child’s identity. ![]() But a man who has investigated the case for 18 years is at the center of the drama. Up springs a battle to claim the little girl, with a rich family, the de Carvilles, on one side and a poor family, the Vitrals, on the other. The 3-month-old baby is immediately hailed as a miracle child and would be reunited with her grandparents except for one small problem: there were two baby girls on the flight, and neither set of grandparents has ever seen their granddaughters. Everyone aboard is killed, but searchers find one survivor, an infant girl who's been improbably thrown from the plane. It’s 1980, and a plane en route from Istanbul to Paris crashes into the side of a mountain. ![]() ![]() A plane crash and the identity of its lone survivor form the delicious premise for Bussi’s novel. ![]()
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