Listen to the Child
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More About This Title Listen to the Child
English
It’s 1875 and London’s East End heaves with child prostitutes, hawkers, beggars and thieves. Constance rescues as many children as she can but feels overwhelmed. A solution is offered that sounds perfect – Canadian farmers need workers; their wives want housemaids. Shipping children to this land of plenty offers them a future. Widow, Mary Trupper, is wary, but the promise of a good life for her children is strong.
English
Elizabeth Howard is a former history teacher and has an MA in writing from Sheffield Hallam University. She has had a long fascination with the lives of children shipped from poor overcrowded London to farms and new towns overseas. More particularly, she is keenly interested in those who shipped the children and their unwavering belief that it was the right thing to do.
English
Historical Novel Review: ‘This is a short book but emotionally very intense.’
Book club comments:
‘I was drawn in straight away.’
‘I cared so much about what happened to these children.’
‘I knew nothing about this and loved how it told both sides.’
Book club comments:
‘I was drawn in straight away.’
‘I cared so much about what happened to these children.’
‘I knew nothing about this and loved how it told both sides.’
