6/20/2023 0 Comments The foundling by stacey halls![]() ![]() From the bestselling author of The Familiars comes this captivating story of mothers and daughters, class and power, and love against the greatest of odds. 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 her past is threatening to catch up with her and tear her carefully constructed world apart. The Foundling Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything. ![]() 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. Georgian London, a tale of two cities, one of wealth and privilege and the other of squalor and misery. Less than a mile from Bess's 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. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl - and why. ![]() Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known.ĭreading the worst, that Clara has died in care, she is astonished when she is told she has already claimed her. Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything. ![]()
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