The girl in the letter / Emily Gunnis.
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TextPublisher: London : Headline Review, 2019Copyright date: ©2018Description: 369 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472255099 (paperback)Subject(s): Unmarried mothers -- Fiction | Letters -- Fiction | Unmarried mothers -- Institutional care -- Fiction | Unmarried mothers -- Family relationships -- Fiction | Women journalists -- Fiction | Adoption -- Corrupt practices -- Fiction | Family secrets -- FictionGenre/Form: Thrillers (Fiction). DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: A heartbreaking letter. A girl locked away. A mystery to be solved. 1956. When Ivy Jenkins falls pregnant she is sent in disgrace to St Margaret's, a dark, brooding house for unmarried mothers. Her baby is adopted against her will. Ivy will never leave. Present day. Samantha Harper is a journalist desperate for a break. When she stumbles on a letter from the past, the contents shock and move her. The letter is from a young mother, begging to be rescued from St Margaret's. Before it is too late. Sam is pulled into the tragic story and discovers a spate of unexplained deaths surrounding the woman and her child. With St Margaret's set for demolition, Sam has only hours to piece together a sixty-year-old mystery before the truth, which lies disturbingly close to home, is lost for ever... Read her letter. Remember her story...
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"She escaped her past but took a lfetime to be free." -- Cover.
A heartbreaking letter. A girl locked away. A mystery to be solved. 1956. When Ivy Jenkins falls pregnant she is sent in disgrace to St Margaret's, a dark, brooding house for unmarried mothers. Her baby is adopted against her will. Ivy will never leave. Present day. Samantha Harper is a journalist desperate for a break. When she stumbles on a letter from the past, the contents shock and move her. The letter is from a young mother, begging to be rescued from St Margaret's. Before it is too late. Sam is pulled into the tragic story and discovers a spate of unexplained deaths surrounding the woman and her child. With St Margaret's set for demolition, Sam has only hours to piece together a sixty-year-old mystery before the truth, which lies disturbingly close to home, is lost for ever... Read her letter. Remember her story...
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