The Lost Orphan
A Sunday Times bestseller!
Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything . . .
London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate newborn at the Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the daughter she has never known. Dreading the worst, that she has died in care, she is astonished to discover someone pretending to be Bess has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girlāand why.
Less than a mile from Bessās poor lodgings, in a quiet Georgian townhouse, lives Alexandra, a reclusive young widow. When her close friendāan ambitious doctor at the orphanageāpersuades her to hire a nursemaid to help care for her daughter, she is hesitant to welcome someone new into her home. But her past is threatening to catch up with her and tear her carefully constructed world apart.
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars comes this captivating story of mothers and daughters, class and power, and love against the greatest of odds.
āA gripping tale of motherhood, loss, and redemption. Hallās distinctive characters and scrupulous historical detail drop us into a rich, Dickensian world full of desperation and lies, and shows us just how far a mother will go to hold onto her child.ā āSerena Burdick, International bestselling author of The Girls with No Names
āThe new Hilary Mantel!āāCosmopolitan
Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything . . .
London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate newborn at the Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the daughter she has never known. Dreading the worst, that she has died in care, she is astonished to discover someone pretending to be Bess has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girlāand why.
Less than a mile from Bessās poor lodgings, in a quiet Georgian townhouse, lives Alexandra, a reclusive young widow. When her close friendāan ambitious doctor at the orphanageāpersuades her to hire a nursemaid to help care for her daughter, she is hesitant to welcome someone new into her home. But her past is threatening to catch up with her and tear her carefully constructed world apart.
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars comes this captivating story of mothers and daughters, class and power, and love against the greatest of odds.
āA gripping tale of motherhood, loss, and redemption. Hallās distinctive characters and scrupulous historical detail drop us into a rich, Dickensian world full of desperation and lies, and shows us just how far a mother will go to hold onto her child.ā āSerena Burdick, International bestselling author of The Girls with No Names
āThe new Hilary Mantel!āāCosmopolitan
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A Sunday Times bestseller!
Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything . . .
London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate newborn at the Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the daughter she has never known. Dreading the worst, that she has died in care, she is astonished to discover someone pretending to be Bess has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girlāand why.
Less than a mile from Bessās poor lodgings, in a quiet Georgian townhouse, lives Alexandra, a reclusive young widow. When her close friendāan ambitious doctor at the orphanageāpersuades her to hire a nursemaid to help care for her daughter, she is hesitant to welcome someone new into her home. But her past is threatening to catch up with her and tear her carefully constructed world apart.
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars comes this captivating story of mothers and daughters, class and power, and love against the greatest of odds.
āA gripping tale of motherhood, loss, and redemption. Hallās distinctive characters and scrupulous historical detail drop us into a rich, Dickensian world full of desperation and lies, and shows us just how far a mother will go to hold onto her child.ā āSerena Burdick, International bestselling author of The Girls with No Names
āThe new Hilary Mantel!āāCosmopolitan
Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything . . .
London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate newborn at the Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the daughter she has never known. Dreading the worst, that she has died in care, she is astonished to discover someone pretending to be Bess has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girlāand why.
Less than a mile from Bessās poor lodgings, in a quiet Georgian townhouse, lives Alexandra, a reclusive young widow. When her close friendāan ambitious doctor at the orphanageāpersuades her to hire a nursemaid to help care for her daughter, she is hesitant to welcome someone new into her home. But her past is threatening to catch up with her and tear her carefully constructed world apart.
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars comes this captivating story of mothers and daughters, class and power, and love against the greatest of odds.
āA gripping tale of motherhood, loss, and redemption. Hallās distinctive characters and scrupulous historical detail drop us into a rich, Dickensian world full of desperation and lies, and shows us just how far a mother will go to hold onto her child.ā āSerena Burdick, International bestselling author of The Girls with No Names
āThe new Hilary Mantel!āāCosmopolitan
