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The foundling / Stacey Halls.
By: Halls, Stacey.
Publisher: Leicester : Thorpe, Isis, 2020Edition: Large print edition.Description: 360 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781785419096; 1785419099.Subject(s): Foundlings -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- George II, 1727-1760 -- FictionGenre/Form: Large type books.Online resources: Click here to access online Summary: 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 - but is astonished when she is told she has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl and why... 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...| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult book | St Helens Library Large Print | Available | 38055013140959 |
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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 - but is astonished when she is told she has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl and why... 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...
Adult.