![]() ![]() ![]() As she walks away from the hospital, leaving her baby behind, Bess consoles herself with the knowledge that it needn’t be forever she has left a token – half of a heart made from whalebone – as proof of identity if she is ever in a position to bring Clara home again.Īfter six years of working hard and saving every penny she can, Bess returns to the hospital to collect her child, dreading being told that Clara has died of some childhood illness. Aware that, as an impoverished shrimp seller, she has little to offer her daughter but hunger and hardship, she is sure Clara will have a happier childhood at the Foundling, where at least she will be fed, clothed and educated. ![]() She has brought her illegitimate baby daughter, Clara – less than a day old – to London’s Foundling Hospital and is planning to leave her there. Stacey Halls’ new novel, The Foundling, begins on a cold November evening in 1747 with Bess Bright about to make a very difficult decision, one no new mother should ever have to face. ![]()
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