The Girl in the Letter

The Girl in the Letter

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Beschreibung

Read her letter. Remember her story...

Gripping. Mesmerising. Haunting. Heart-breaking. Once you've heard her story, you will never forget The Girl in the Letter.

Perfect for fans of Kate Morton, Rachel Hore and Kathryn Hughes, this page-turning, moving novel of separation and long-buried secrets will stay with you for ever.

In the winter of 1956 pregnant young Ivy is sent in disgrace to St Margaret's, a home for unmarried mothers in the south of England, run by nuns, to have her child. Her baby daughter is adopted. Ivy will never leave.

Sixty years later, journalist Samantha stumbles upon a series of letters from Ivy to her lover, pleading with him to rescue her from St Margaret's before it is too late. As Sam pieces together Ivy's tragic story, terrible secrets about St Margaret's dark past begin to emerge. What happened to Ivy, to her baby, and to the hundreds of children born in the home? What links a number of mysterious, sudden deaths in the area? And why are those who once worked at St Margaret's so keen that the truth should never be told? As Sam unpicks the sinister web of lies surrounding St Margaret's, she also looks deep within - to confront some unwelcome truths of her own...
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Wow, it's been a long time ago that I've read a book that was so very very captivating! The story is about a horrible mother child home and shows how events from the past might still effect people in the present. You can see it is all very well researched by the author and she's written a wonderful, allbeit a very sad, story. At a certain point I thought that Elvira and Kitty were both alive and kicking in the present day, but sadly there was only one left in the end. Roles reversed. I really really loved the story and I couldn't put it down to take a break. I had to, but really couldn't. To know that these things really happened so many years ago, so many young girls who were sent away to these horrible places to slave labour and be absued and mal treated by the people who were supposed to take care of them. The people belonging to the church. And to be forced to give your baby up for adoption. Not getting another choice, no chance to raise your baby yourself. I'm so happy times have changed. How many of those poor girls were assaulted in those places? Killed even? Horrible. Lest we forget...

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