The Lost Orphan
By
Stacey Halls
Read by
Imogen Church,
Elizabeth Knowelden
Release:
04/07/2020
Release:
04/07/2020
Release:
04/07/2020
Runtime:
9h 51m
Runtime:
9h 51m
Runtime:
9h 51m
Unabridged
Quantity:
“A masterpiece of storytelling—a perfect, captivating mystery that expands to ask big questions about love and motherhood, all the while maintaining the breathless pace of a thriller and the stunningly vivid and well-researched detail of the very best historical fiction. I can’t recommend it highly enough.”
Katie Lowe, author of The Furies
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 girl-and why.
Less than a mile from Bess's poor lodgings, in a quiet Georgian townhouse, lives Alexandra, a reclusive young widow. When her close friend-an ambitious doctor at the orphanage-persuades 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.
"A gripping tale of motherhood, loss, and redemption. Hall's 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." -Serena Burdick, International bestselling author of The Girls with No Names
"The new Hilary Mantel!"-Cosmopolitan
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 girl-and why.
Less than a mile from Bess's poor lodgings, in a quiet Georgian townhouse, lives Alexandra, a reclusive young widow. When her close friend-an ambitious doctor at the orphanage-persuades 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.
"A gripping tale of motherhood, loss, and redemption. Hall's 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." -Serena Burdick, International bestselling author of The Girls with No Names
"The new Hilary Mantel!"-Cosmopolitan
Release:
2020-04-07
2020-04-07
2020-04-07
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
9h 51m
9h 51m
9h 51m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
0.7 lb
0.5 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781488208089
9781094098654
9781094098661
Publisher:
Harlequin Audio
Harlequin Audio
Harlequin Audio
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