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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Memoir A deeply moving and emotional story. Sad, yet very optimistic and positive. The author is a very good narrator and knows how to keep the reader interested. There are even some very comical parts. This is certainly a story which made me realise how happy and grateful I should be for my own childhood and special moments spent with my parents and relatives. Now that I am a parent myself, it only stressed the importance of being a good parent and utterly loving your child. If only all children could be so lucky! no reviews | add a review
A deeply moving memoir from one of the last children to be taken in by the Foundling Hospital, London.When she fell pregnant in London in 1938, Jean knew that she couldn't keep her baby. The unmarried daughter of an elder in the Church of Scotland, she would shame her family if she returned to the north in such a condition. Scared and alone in a city on the brink of war, she begged the Foundling Hospital to give her baby the start in life that she could not.The institution, which had been providing care for deserted infants since the eighteenth century, allowed Jean to nurse her son for nine weeks, leaving her heartbroken when the time came to let him go.But little Tom knew nothing of her love as he grew up in the Foundling Hospital - which, during years of the Second World War, was more like a prison than a children's home. Locked in and subject to public canings and the sadistic whims of the older boys, there was no one to give him a hug, no one to wipe away his tears.A true story of desertion and neglect, this is also a moving account of survival from one of the very last foundlings. It stands as a testament to the love that ultimately led a family back together. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)362.732092Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Social problems of & services to groups of people Child welfare Adoption OrphansRatingAverage:
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