2022 QBC - Book Reveal for Quarter 2 ( Apr - Jun )
Mar 16, 2022 18:48:12 GMT
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Post by geminii on Mar 16, 2022 18:48:12 GMT
The Foundling by Stacey Halls
From the bestselling author of The Familiars, and set against the vibrant backdrop of Georgian London, The Foundling explores families, secrets, class, equality, power and the meaning of motherhood.
London, 1754.
Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading the worst - that Clara has died in care - the last thing she expects to hear is that her daughter has already been reclaimed - by her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl - and why. Less than a mile from Bess' lodgings in the city, in a quiet, gloomy townhouse on the edge of London, a young widow has not left the house in a decade. When her close friend - an ambitious young doctor at the Foundling Hospital - persuades her to hire a nursemaid for her daughter, she is hesitant to welcome someone new into her home and her life. But her past is threatening to catch up with her and tear her carefully constructed world apart.
From the bestselling author of The Familiars, and set against the vibrant backdrop of Georgian London, The Foundling explores families, secrets, class, equality, power and the meaning of motherhood.
Although I am yet to read The Familiars, I know that it has been thoroughly enjoyed by many of you, and with Mrs England nominated for an award, I thought this would be a good choice for our next Quarterly read ..
Should be an easy book to source at Libraries & maybe a Charity Shop, so I hope some of you will join in over the next 3 months ..
As always, I will set up a discussion thread in April
Should be an easy book to source at Libraries & maybe a Charity Shop, so I hope some of you will join in over the next 3 months ..
As always, I will set up a discussion thread in April
