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Forgotten Children -Isabella Muir- family life/historical

Emily is having a miscarriage. She hasn’t told her live in boyfriend that she is even

pregnant. This stirs memories for her. When he does his best to cheer her up taking

her out to dinner and proposing, she knows she has to leave. Twenty years ago aged

just sixteen she gave birth to a child she never held and now wonders what his life

has been like. She drives to Anglesey, far away from where she was in Hastings.

This is set in the late 1980’s  and Emily frequently uses a phone box. This rather adds

to its charm and the simplicity of the life she is leading when she leaves Mark. She

spends some time in Anglesey, almost a holiday from life before setting out on her

quest to find out about her son and tackling her estranged mother which in itself

is another mountain to climb. I felt for Emily. Her mother like many others is cold

hearted and callous, thinking only of what others think. I won’t spoil the story line

but this one track develops into something Emily could never have imagined and

kept me turning the pages time and again. This is a very well written book and I

could easily see this as a TV drama. This is based on real events, ones I was

unaware of. How children were sent to Australia, New Zealand and Canada rather

than be kept in children’s homes here, however not all of them were looked after

and many were abused and put to work as the story tells its history.

An interesting read and one to learn that little bit more of history that we may

not know.

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