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When she fell pregnant in London in 1938, Jean knew that she couldn''t keep her baby. She was unmarried - her sweetheart having departed to set up a home for them both in South Africa - and living alone with no money or family close by. Afraid and desperate, she implored the panel of the Foundling Hospital, the institution set up by philanthropist Thomas Coram in 1739, to give her child the care that she could not. Allowed to nurse her newborn son for nine weeks, Jean was heartbroken when the time came for her to give him away. Little Tommy would know nothing of her love as he grew up alongside the other abandoned and misfortunate children of the Foundling Hospital. The regime during the years of the Second World War was particularly harsh: there were few teachers, strict rules and severe punishments, little food, segregation of the sexes and bullying was rife. A mischievous child, Tom seemed to be always getting himself into trouble. He spent each school holiday with another foster family, never quite findin
In The Grief of Stones , Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct sequel to The Witness for the Dead ... An Amazon Editor's Pick for the Best of the Month Science Fiction and Fantasy list Book of the Month picks for BUZZFEED LITHUB GIZMODO TRANSFER ORBIT and more A
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When Mary's father, the miller, leaves his family and runs away with another woman, Mary and her siblings are left to weather the storm. But when their mother dies soon after, the children, alone and unwanted, are sent to the Foundling School for Girls to start a new life. When the miller learns of
A Women's Prize Futures 10 Finalist A Waterstones Best Book of the Year From the bestselling author of The Familiars and The Foundling comes Stacey Halls - most compelling and ambitious novel to date. West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly-graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the childr
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As the festival of Beltane draws near, mysterious fires are springing up around the magical village of Myrtlewood, and Rosemary Thorn can't help but try to solve the case. Rosemary already has too much on her plate with a hoard of foundling children to house and her own teenager to raise. On top of
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