Full of historical detail and wonderful characters, this is an intriguing and thought provoking read. And so starts the mystery of what happened to Bessie’s daughter, and brings Bessie in to the world of Alexandra, locked away in her town house with her daughter Charlotte. Over six years later, Bessie saves the money required to pay for her daughter’s care and take her back, only to find she is no longer there. Set in mid eighteenth century Georgian England, Bessie Blight finds herself pregnant, the father dead, so has no choice but to take her baby daughter, Clara, to The Foundling Hospital. That is where the similarities end though. Like the first book, this book has two very strong female lead characters, and again the idea of motherhood is prevalent. The Foundling is the much anticipated second book from Stacey Hall, author of last years bestseller The Familiars. But her past is threatening to catch up with her and tear her carefully constructed world apart.
When her close friend – an ambitious young doctor at the Foundling Hospital – persuades her to hire a nursemaid for her daughter, she is hesitant to welcome someone new into her home and her life. Less than a mile from Bess’s lodgings in the city, in a quiet, gloomy townhouse on the edge of London, a young widow has not left the house in a decade. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl – and why.
Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care, she is astonished when she is told she has already claimed her. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London’s Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known.
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