Foundling

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"The new Hillary Mantel"

Cosmopolitan

Foundling

The story of a girl and two women

Stacy Halls

Author of Sunday Times bestselling novels

Two women, a child between them, and a secret that will change everything...

In London, in 1754, Bess Bright returns to the Foundling Home, where she left her illegitimate daughter, Jane, six years earlier, demanding the return of the child she never knew. Worse still, Bess believes Jane died in the home's care, but she is stunned to learn that she has already been reclaimed. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who took her little girl—and why.

In a quiet, gloomy house on the outskirts of London, less than a mile from Bess's city residence, lives a young widow who hasn't left the house in a decade. When her close friend—an ambitious young doctor at the Foundling asylum—urges her to hire a nanny for her daughter, she hesitates to welcome a new member into her home and her life. But her past threatens to haunt her and tear apart the carefully constructed world she has built.

"Breathtaking"

Sunday Express