Books with title Cuckoo Sister, The

"Since the day I found out about Emma, I seemed to have gone to the bad. I was rude. I told lies. I listened at doors and read other people's letters if they left them about. I was always losing things . . . watches, cameras, and silver bracelets. And whenever my mother reproached me, I screamed at her, 'Look who's talking? Who lost her own baby? Who lost my sister? Just because you wanted a new dress?'"Convinced that her family's problems will end if only Emma is returned by the person who snatched her from her baby carriage, Kate longs for the older sister she never knew. But when a thin, spiky-haired stranger with hard eyes shows up with a letter claiming she's the long-lost sister, there's more trouble than ever. This "Emma" is certainly not the sister Kate imagined.

'I'm an only child.' Or so Kate Seton thinks until she discovers that she has a sister. Two years before Kate was born, her mother had left her first baby, Emma, in her pram outside a dress shop. When she came out, the baby was gone. Now, 12 years later, a girl appears on the Setons' doorstep with a note claiming that she is Emma. She has come home not the cuddly baby Kate has always wanted but a thin, spiky teenager with hard eyes. But is she Emma? A gripping psychological thriller from best-selling author Vivien Alcock.