![]() However, I didn’t find this book quite as absorbing as the first one, mainly because it relies too much on coincidence to be credible.īess, an unmarried mother, is forced to leave her newborn daughter at a Foundling Hospital but is determined she will return one day to reclaim her. The Foundling is the second novel written by Stacey Halls whose previous book The Familiars was one of my favourite books last year. But her past is threatening to catch up with her and tear her carefully constructed world apart. When her close friend persuades her to hire a nursemaid for her daughter, she is hesitant to welcome someone new into her home and her life. 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. 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. ![]() ![]() Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London’s Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. ![]()
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