Her writing is visual, visceral and really makes you part of the story – what more can you want in a good book? The characters were a massive stand-out for me, especially Bess and Alexandra. I loved how she wrote about London in 1754, everything felt so real you could almost smell it. What I love about her books and her writing is how absorbing it is and how atmospheric she makes them, too. I think that’s a strength of her writing – she leaves you wanting more every time the chapter ends where you can’t do nothing but keep turning page after page…

I really enjoyed this novel – at first I took my time with it but then I got so invested in it that I couldn’t put it down. Sounds good, right? I’m not going to go into too much of the plot because I think it’s best to go in blind and go along with the ride and enjoy the surprises. But her past is threatening to catch up with her and tear her carefully constructed world apart.įrom the bestselling author of The Familiars comes this captivating story of mothers and daughters, class and power, and love against the greatest of odds. 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. Two women, bound by a child, a nd a secret that will change everything. But first, what’s it about? Here’s the blurb: I’m a big fan of Stacey’s writing and I enjoyed her previous novel, The Familiars but I adored The Foundling.

Today, it’s a brand new review of the wonderful new novel from author Stacey Halls, The Foundling!

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